SWIFT COUNTY: INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 783, KERKHOVEN:

Established May 13, 1873 as Swift County School District No. 11; later renamed Swift County Independent School District No. 3. In December 1954, became Joint Independent Consolidated School District No. 101 (Swift County), No. 92 (Chippewa County), and No. 116 (Kandiyohi County). On September 6, 1957, it became Independent School District No. 781 and on December 12, 1957, it was changed to Independent School District No. 783. In 1978, merged with Independent School District No. 782, Murdock, and became Independent School District No. 775, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg.

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Included are clerk's books (1913-1926), financial records for the district (1904-1952), the veterans agriculture fund (1947-1953), and the high school home economics department (1928-1929), school census (1923), agenda packets for board of education meetings (1943-1944), scorebook of the high school basketball team (1928-1929), voter register for the district special election (March 8, 1955), and historical information (1978).

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Independent School District No. 783 (Kerkhoven). Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 982-52 2012-53

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 001709222

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Basketball -- Minnesota.

Home economics -- Study and teaching -- Minnesota -- Swift County.

Parents' and teachers' associations -- Minnesota -- Swift County.

School board members -- Minnesota -- Swift County.

School census -- Minnesota -- Swift County.

School elections -- Minnesota -- Swift County.

School superintendents -- Minnesota -- Swift County.

Schools -- Minnesota -- Chippewa County.

Schools -- Minnesota -- Kandiyohi County.

Organizations:

Joint Independent Consolidated School District No. 101 of Swift County, No. 92 of Chippewa County, and No. 116 of Kandiyohi County (Kerkhoven, Minn.).

Minnesota. Independent School District No. 775 (Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg).

Minnesota. Independent School District No. 781 (Kerkhoven).

Minnesota. Independent School District No. 782 (Murdock).

Minnesota. Independent School District No. 783 (Kerkhoven) -- History.

Swift County (Minn.). Independent School District No. 2 (Kerkhoven).

Swift County (Minn.). School District No. 11 (Kerkhoven).

Places:

Kerkhoven (Minn.)

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