Volunteers collecting the photographs, maps and stories of the town on Lake Waconia. Two books in print, and a members’ digital archive on the way. Pledge $5 a month, or any amount, to help collect the town’s stories.
Waconia looking north From the roof of the 1895 Public School. The brick North Star Hotel stands on Main Street, with Coney Island of the West behind it.
Platted in 1857 beside what settlers called Clearwater Lake, and full of summer visitors by the 1890s.
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Tens of thousands of photographs, letters and clippings, scanned into one archive members can search, map and add to. This preview runs on real captions. Open the full preview
Every pledge is a charitable gift to the association. It funds scanning the collection and collecting stories from the people of Waconia: their memories, family photographs and the names behind the faces.
The association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Pledges and gifts are tax deductible as the law allows.
Digital archive pledge
$5 a month, or any amount
A charitable gift that helps collect Waconia’s stories, with the archive as your thank-you.
Annual association membership
$15 a year
Family $25. Seniors 62 and over $10 each.
Hardcover histories written and published by the association. Every sale funds scanning the collection.
The set, both volumes
$98
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Volume 1, 1986the Blue Book
Coney Island of the West, the lakeside hotels and the resort summers that made Waconia a destination.
$49
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Volume 2the Red Book
The stories, families, businesses and photographs of Waconia itself, from Main Street to the schools.
$49
