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Our Collections

The Museum has numerous resources for researchers who are interested in local Hopkins history and genealogy.  Our collections include:

Photographs and Maps:
  • More than 8000 photographs from the area of people, places, businesses, schools, etc.
  • 1956 Norton & Peele black and white photographs of every home and business within Hopkins
  • Approximately 130 maps and plat diagrams, arial photographs and historical atlases of the area
Newspapers:
  • Hennepin County Review newspapers from the mid-1920s through the late-1960s
  • Hopkins Sun and Sun Sailor from the late 1960s to the 2000s
Genealogical Resources:
  • Over 400 documented family histories and family trees
  • 130 oral histories from Hopkins residents
  • Our Czech history collection, including many documents in the Czech language
  • An extensive collection of Hopkins schools history including yearbooks dating from the 1930s
  • WWI and WWII collections including a WWII muster roll with photographs and The Bulldozer, a local newsletter sent to Hopkins area soldiers during WWII
  • City and regional address and phone directories dating from the 1900s through the 2000s
  • Obituary records, both clippings and within our newspaper collection
Business and Local Organization Information:
  • Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company and Minneapolis Moline documents and photographs
  • Documents tracing our history as a national food distribution hub, including information about National Tea, Red Owl and SuperValu.
  • Railroad and streetcar documents and photographs describing the role these modes of transportation played in our history, including the Yellowstone Trail.
  • Other Business, Church and Civic Organization historical records
Festivals and Sports:
  • Raspberry Festival history and photographs beginning with the first festival in 1935.
  • School and business team sports memorabilia including hundreds of team pictures stretching back to the 1890s
  • Hennepin County Fair and Czech/Sokol Festival information and photographs.
Contact Us!

Visit us at our museum in the Hopkins Activity Center, 33 14th Ave N, Hopkins

Mailing address: 1010 1st St S, Hopkins, MN 55343

Thursdays, 10am - 1pm
Saturdays, 1pm - 4pm
Or by appointment

Telephone

952-548-6480

Email

info@hopkinshistory.org
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