Plymouth History Center

In our journey to commemorate the naming of Plymouth, it is now time to re-center on our very own Plymouth, Minnesota. Returning to Upham’s text, the entry reads: Plymouth, first settled in October, 1853, organized May 11, 1858, took the name of its village previously platted on Parker’s lake, in 1856; but the village was only of short duration, in contrast with the township name, which, however, some of the settlers at first wished to change to Medicine Lake. Like…

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The City of Plymouth was recently awarded a Minnesota Legacy Small Grant for the purposes of creating a Collection Storage Plan for the Plymouth History Museum. The grant enables us to bring in an outside consultant to assist with planning next steps for the collection as part of the recent building works and collection packing and inventory. The plan will be based on the National Park Service’s Museum Handbook standards for museum collections and is meant to ensure we are…

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