Links to Minnesota Agricultural History

Haying on a farm in Clay County, Minnesota
Image from the Moorhead Photograph Collection, Northwest Minnesota Historical Center

The Gibbs Farm Museum -- operated by the Ramsey County Historical Society, this ongoing restoration has information on early Minnesota farming, including the excavation of the sod house built by the Gibbs family about 1849.

Minnesota Historical Society's Photograph Database has more than 100,000 photograph entries (many with online images), many of which deal with agriculture.

Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920 -- This web site of the Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, has over 900 photographic images of rural and small town life from 1880-1920.  The site also provides access to very nice images of farm equipment in use during this period.

The Oliver Kelley Farm -- a site operated by the Minnesota Historical Society, with detailed information on early farming in the territory and state.  An excellent collection of old farm equipment is used to cultivate typical crops of the 1800s.