About PCHS | About Pioneer Village | About This Site | Contact Us

Appreciate This Site?
GIVE TO PCHS!

Search Online Holdings
Search for a name, place, business, or event in PCHS's online holdings, including photographs, cemetery records, obituary listings, city directories, and landowner lists.

Holdings
PCHS has documents available online and many more available only in person.

Photographs
Search through PCHS's database of nearly 4000 photographs.

Maps
View historic maps, including township-scale rural maps and city-scale maps.

Cemetery and Obituary Records
Search cemetery records and obituary references for Pennington, Red Lake, and Marshall Counties.

Landowner Records
Search for landowners in the 1911 Pennington/Red Lake or the 1896 Polk county atlas, then view the maps from the atlas.

City Directories
Search the 1909-1910 Thief River Falls city directory or see other directories available in person.

Documents
Search and view other indexed documents.

Other Features
View past stories featured on PCHS online and in the PCHS newsletter.

Publications
See books available on the history of Thief River Falls and Pennington County.

Resources
See other sites useful for research.

News

Thief River Falls and Pennington County, a book of images from vintage postcards published by Arcadia Publishing, is now available for purchase. The 128-page book was authored by Thief River Falls resident Caryl Bugge, with assistance from the Pennington County Historical Society’s Advisory Committee. The book is available locally at HD Floral in Thief River Falls and online at Amazon.com. It retails for $19.99, and the author has assigned the royalities to PCHS. The book is NOT available at PCHS or the Village. PCHS does, however, offer additional publications for purchase.

Online Feature

Emmett Mousley Sign Phototour

Chances are, you've seen an Emmett Mousley sign around Thief River Falls. And while they are getting fewer and farther between, it's hard to get around town without seeing one. In this phototour, we present 24 photos of signs created by Thief River Falls signmaker Emmett Mousley (1901-1980).

Dwight's Hartz Market, 2nd Ave & Horace St (ca. 1980's)

Continue Tour >>

Site hosting donated by Wikstrom Telecom Internet