Hours:
Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (year round)

Research Fees:
$10.00/hour for non-members, free for members

* Need someone to do research for you? We are happy to help. We begin the research for a minimum twenty ($20) dollars. All information discovered will then be sent to you. It is your call how deep you want us to dig! The research can be as cursory or as in depth as you request.

Photocopying: $.15/page (8.5 x 11)

Research Room User Policies:
Pencils only
No digital cameras or scanners allowed
All researchers must work with staff (no browsing)
Photocopying is possible if the original is stable
Please use the white gloves available while handling photographs
Please allow staff to re-file the materials
No food or drink


Cemetery Directories, Polk Directories, Lygin Photos, Madow Index/Family Histories, Plat Books, Phone Books, Obituaries, Photograph Files, Research Files, Research Response Index, Sanborn Maps, Scrapbook Files, WW1, Annuals, Books on County History, Subject Specific Archives.

Rice County Cemetery Directories

Polk Directories:
1880, 1888, 1889, 1893, 1895, 1899, 1903, 1907, 1909, 1911/12, 1913/14, 1915/16, 1918, 1921, 1926, 1929, 1936/37, 1939/40, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972 to 1977, 1979, 1980 to 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993

Lygin Photos

Madow Index/Family Histories (more than 135 histories)

Plat Books:
1850s-1860s, 1878, 1900, 1915, 1928, 1938, 1947,1949, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1971, 1976, 1980/81, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992

Phone Books:
Faribault: 1920 to 1946, 1948 to 1953, 1955 to 1961, 1969 to 1972, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1994

Faribault/Morristown/Waseca: 1979, 1980

Faribault/Northfield/Owatonna/ Waseca: 1962, 1963, 1965 to 1975, 1977 to 1984, 1986 to 1990, 1992 to 1998, 2002, 2003

Faribault/Northfield/Redwing: 1997, 1998, 2003

Minnesota Valley Regional: 1982

Northfield: 1933 to 19637, 1939, 1944

Rice County MN Rural Resident Directory: 1980, 1981

Waterville, Elysian, Janesville, Kilkenney, Le Center, Montgomery, MN: 1979

Obituaries (1936 to present - part of the scrapbook files)

Photograph Files (Various topics)

Research Files (Variety of topics)

Research Response Index

Sanborn Maps of the City of Faribault:
October 1884, May 1893, July 1899, February 1905, February 1909, February 1921, February 1930

Scrapbook Files

WW1 Records

Annuals (various publications of County High Schools):
Bethlehem Academy
   The Veritas of 1951, 1951
   Faribault Junior High School
   FJHS, 1982, 1983, 1985 to 1987
   Faribault High School
   The F, 1913
   The Athenian, 1923
   Who’s Who in 1924, 1924
   The Green and White Review, 1925
   The Athenian, 1927
   The Half Century Book: 1879 to 1929, 1929
   Memories, 1929
   Pieces of Eight, 1930
   The F-An, 1934
   Shadows, 1935
   Voyageur, 1936 to 1943, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1963 to 1971, 1974 to 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988
Morristown
   The Comet, 1947/48
   The Highlight 1954
   Mohiscan, 1955 to 1959
St. Olaf College
   The Viking, 1913/14/15, 1931
Shattuck, St. Mary’s, St. James
   Shattuck:
   Shattuck Year Book, 1906
   Shattuck School, 1911/1912
   Shattuck, 1916/17
   The Shad, 1924 to 1971
   St. James School:
   Knight, 1969 to 1971
   St. Mary’s School: Fleur De Leis
1918, 1923 to 1933, 1936, 1943 to 1946, 1956 to 1971
   Shattuck, St. Mary’s, St. James
   The Joint, (the first year book for the three schools, combined) 1972
   St, James School, St. Mary’s Hall, Shattuck School, 1973 to 1976
   Sojourner: The Bishop Whipple Schools, 1977
   Odyssey” (Shattuck, St. Mary’s, St. James) 1979 to 1982
   Shattuck - St. Mary's School: 1983, 1984, 1987-1991, 1993-2000

Books on County History:

Rice County Families
1882 History of Rice County
1910 History of Rice and Steele Counties

Subject Specific Archives:
Faribault Traveler’s Club
Grace McKinstry