Newspaper/Resource Search
| Name |
Subject |
Categories |
Source |
Date |
Pg |
Col |
| Luce Line RR |
New railroad officials visit Watertown |
Buildings: Railroad |
Carver County News |
12/8/1927 |
1 |
1 |
| Sports |
Watertown High School - Local cagers defeat Waconia |
Sports & Recreation: Basketball |
Carver County News |
12/8/1927 |
1 |
6 |
| History - Watertown |
Christmas in Watertown in the early days |
History: Reminiscences |
Carver County News |
12/22/1927 |
1 |
1 & 2 |
| Dalchow, Albert |
Plat of Watertown Twp/Section 13/80 Acres |
|
1927 Plat Map |
12/23/1927 |
0 |
0 |
| Dalchow, Albert |
Plat of Watertown Twp/Section 12/40 Acres |
|
1927 Plat Map |
12/31/1927 |
0 |
0 |
| Watertown and Hollywood |
1927 Personal Property Tax List |
|
Carver County News |
1/12/1928 |
6 |
|
| Watertown Creamery |
Annual Meeting |
|
Carver County News |
1/19/1928 |
1 |
1 |
| Watertown Creamery |
Annual Meeting |
|
Carver County News |
2/2/1928 |
1 |
6 |
| Watertown Creamery |
Annual Meeting |
|
Carver County News |
2/2/1928 |
3 |
1 |
| Sports |
Watertown Basket Ball 1927 - 1928 (Special Basketball Souvenir) |
Sports & Recreation: Basketball |
CCN - Misc Old Time Newspapers |
3/22/1928 |
8 |
|
| Businesses - Watertown |
Creamery: Watertown to ship 5 cars of cream a week |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Carver County News (Misc. Old Time Newspapers) |
3/22/1928 |
1 |
1 |
| Watertown Canning |
Two hundred acres |
|
Carver County News |
5/3/1928 |
4 |
1 |
| Watertown Telephone Co |
25 years old |
|
Carver County News |
2/7/1929 |
1 |
3 |
| Old-home Cottage Cheese Company |
Plant in Watertown |
|
Carver County News |
3/7/1929 |
4 |
2 |
| Olson, George |
Opened Watertown's third shoe repair shop |
|
Carver County News |
5/9/1929 |
4 |
1 |
| Paschka, Herman C. |
Bought farm at Watertown for $188. and acre, paying $29,000 for the farm and personal property |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/19/1929 |
1 |
|
| Schools - Watertown Twp. |
District #34 - Watertown opens school season for 8 months |
Buildings: Schools |
Weekly Valley Herald |
10/3/1929 |
6 |
5 |
| Watertown Creamery |
Shipped Butter to Chicago |
|
Carver County News |
12/19/1929 |
4 |
1 |
| Halgren, C.G, Mrs. |
Funeral services are held in Watertown |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/20/1930 |
1 |
|
| Cities - Watertown |
Pioneer shows Faith in town(Waconia) |
History: Reminiscences |
Waconia Patriot |
7/31/1930 |
1 |
|
| Vogelgesang, Henry |
Auction-169 acres West of Watertown, Mn. |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/14/1930 |
6 |
|
| Edling, Nels |
Honeymooned in Watertown |
|
Carver County News |
9/4/1930 |
4 |
3 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Watertown's bakery changes hands |
Business & Industry: General Stores |
Carver County News |
2/26/1931 |
1 |
1 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Watertown's bakery changes hands |
Business & Industry |
Carver County News |
2/26/1931 |
1 |
1 |
| Paschka, Herman 1888-1931 |
Died at Watertown after months of suffering |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/30/1931 |
1 |
|
| Cities - Watertown |
Grand Opening of Watertown Pavilion |
Buildings |
Weekly Valley Herald |
5/7/1931 |
4 |
|
| Cities - Watertown |
Diamond Jubilee - Farmers picnic(Misc. Old Time Newspapers) |
History: Events |
Carver County News |
8/13/1931 |
1 |
5 - 6 |
| Cities - Watertown |
Watertown has dandy jail (Misc. Old Time Newspaper) |
Law & Justice: Jails |
Carver County News |
8/13/1931 |
7 |
1 - 2 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Watertown Creamery moved here from Woodland (Photo) |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
CCN (Misc. Old Time Newspapers) |
8/13/1931 |
2 |
1 |
| Cities - Watertown |
Historical - Watertown Pioneer Days |
History: Events |
Carver County News |
8/13/1931 |
3 |
2 |
| Cities - Watertown |
Indian Bands sweep down on Watertown |
Ethnic & Minority Groups: Native American |
Carver County News |
8/13/1931 |
1 |
5 |
| Cities - Watertown |
Watertown History |
History: Reminiscences |
Carver County News (Section 1 & 2 & Pg. 1-8) |
8/13/1931 |
7,8, |
|
| Libraries/Watertown |
Library service once a week for Watertown |
Cultural Facilities: Libraries |
Carver County News |
6/30/1932 |
1 |
1 |
| Nicolai, Ewald |
Chaska boy in enterprise operating the Waconia Lake side pavilion and watertown place along with Al Hagen |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/7/1932 |
4 |
4 |
| Businesses - Waconia |
Chaska boy in enterprise, Ewald Nicolai & Al Hagen are operating the Waconia Lakeside pavilion and the Watertown place |
Business & Industry: Nightclubs |
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/7/1932 |
4 |
4 |
| Organizations - Watertown |
American Legion/Eugene Early Post - Notice |
Government: Organizations |
Carver County News |
7/7/1932 |
1 |
3 |
| O'Rourke Girls of Watertown |
Mrs John Dowling, Mrs Frank Frazier, L.M. Malsed, Mrs Geo Oswald |
|
Carver County News |
9/1/1932 |
4 |
3 |
| Johnson, P. S. |
purchased 20 acres N of Watertown from Chas. Stureen |
|
Carver County News |
9/1/1932 |
4 |
2 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Watertown Pavilion destroyed by fire |
- Buildings: Halls
- Disasters: Fires |
Waconia Patriot |
9/22/1932 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Watertown |
Bank: Case against bankers taken away from here. Ponsford & Nelson trial changed to Sibley County, term in December |
Business & Industry: Financial Institutions |
Weekly Valley Herald |
10/13/1932 |
1 |
3 |
Information contained in this database has been obtained from the files of the Carver County Historical Society Library; specifically, the newspaper index (in the future to include scrapbooks, family histories etc...). As with any information source, errors, inconsistencies, and accuracy in spelling and content are unavoidable. Therefore,
we suggest checking for alternate spellings when researching individual names or places. We have tried to include alternatives whenever possible.
Some examples of alternate spellings include:
Miller/Mueller
Bergman/Bergmann
Blocker/Plocher
Hemming/Henning
The Carver County Historical Society is grateful to Southwest Newspapers for their generous financial support of the newspaper indexing project.
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