Winona County: Whitewater Valley. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 12". Description: white glossy card stock, black print information: The Beaver Story, 100 years in the Whitewater Valley, Beaver, Minnesota; red graphic of Beaver Village plat in 1900; contents: 47 numbered pages tell the story of a pioneer village that grew, prospered and then was destroyed by flooding in the early 1900s due to lack of good conservation practices on farms along the Whitewater River; many of the eroded farms were purchased by the government under the Pitman-Robinson Act after 1943; black and white photos of original pioneers and descendents.
