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Warroad Heritage Center

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The Warroad Heritage Center offers an array of displays on Warroad's culture and history.

We also offer a vast amount of research on topics and families of Warroad and the surrounding area.

10/29/2026

Happy ! Today we have a photo of 4 Great Northern Railroad employees in 1909. We do not know the two men in the middle but we believe the man on the left is A.E. Cantelon and the man on the right is Heath Graham. The sign clearly says O.R.T. which stands for Order of Railroad Telegraphers. The O.R.T. was a labor union created in the late 1880s. Because these men were essentially air traffic controllers for trains, the O.R.T was specific to just railroad telegraphers as they believed they were occupationally distinct to commercial telegraphers who worked in telegraph offices and primarily handled commodities reports, news reports, and personal messages.

10/22/2026

Good morning and happy ! Today we have a great photo of Dakota Red! Dakota's real name was Albert P. Shoemaker. Per the newspaper he was "a famous lake character." He filed for a homestead in the area in 1923. It appears that his fishery was at Sandy Beach which we posted last week. Per a newspaper article in December of 1926, he also had a "hotel" at Sandy Beach. He received a lot of traffic as it was located about halfway between Warroad and Oak Island. All the teams hauling supplies to the Angle during the winter would stop at his place to rest. The famous story of Dakota Red was that he was allegedly a horse thief and he ended up in the Angle/Warroad because he was an outlaw on the run.

10/15/2026

It is again! Today we have a picture of Sam Selvog at the fishery on Sandy Beach. We believe the beach was located between Stoney Point and Driftwood.

10/14/2026

The Heritage Center will be closed Thursday, October 15th and Friday, October 16th.

10/08/2026

You know what day it is! It's ! Any of our followers on the 1964-1965 football team?

Front Row: David Olson, Gordon Marshall, Jack Ploof, Dedrick Dumais, George Ganyo, Jon Hanson, Duane Foster, Gordon Huerd, Jim Floe, Rick Krahn, David Hallett, John Roberts, Mike McKeever, George Roberts
Back Row: Tony Stukel, Neil Richards, Arvid Janson, Gary Thompson, James Ramsay, Kenneth Heppner, Mike Rose, Donald Stoskopf, Van Holmgren, Jake Marvin, Albert Hardy, Jerry Frolander, Gary Hecker, Alvin Meeker, Jeff Parker, Dale Bleau, Rick McKeever, Elmer Bonnell

10/06/2026

Photograph of the inside of a logging camp dining room. Norman Hohn, the owner of the logging camp, sits while Mrs. Albert Soltau pours him a cup of coffee, with her husband standing beside her, on April 5, 1951.

10/01/2026

Good morning and happy ! Did you know Warroad was a tourist destination over a century ago? People used to visit to hunt waterfowl and game birds in the early 20th century. This is a photo of John Lawson, the elder* YOUNGER brother of Tom Lawson. John did not live in Warroad though he would visit from Wisconsin occasionally. After Tom Lawson and Tom Jones ended their partnership, John put up majority share to start the Warroad Mercantile. We are not certain exactly when this photo was taken, but we think it is around the mid 1900s-1910s.

With information from the comments it may be John T. Lawson, the first born son of Tom Lawson.

09/28/2026

What can you tell us about the Stockade Service Station that was located in Warroad?

09/28/2026

Main Street (Lake Street) in Warroad, 1915, with the schools on the river in the background. Marvin Lumber and Cedar is next to the railroad.

The river was quite full then.

Address

202 Main Avenue NE
Warroad, MN
56763

Opening Hours

Monday	1pm - 5pm
Tuesday	1pm - 5pm
Wednesday	1pm - 5pm
Thursday	1pm - 5pm
Friday	1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+12183862500

Website

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=AT48JVY2WA9BQ, https://www.warroadmuseum.com/, https://warroad.touchpros

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