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The Clausen Museum is featuring a special exhibit, "Recollections of Point Agassiz: The Life and Times of Point Agassiz Settlers" during the month of August.

"The Point Agassiz News" was a regular column that ran in the Petersburg Press during the 1920s and 1930s, when nine homesteading families were building houses and barns while farming the fertile meadows between Clear Creek and Brown Cove on Point Agassiz.

The following examples illustrate how the column detailed the comings and goings and doings of the small community over on the mainland:

Verner Israelson of Petersburg and his cousin Ma...

 
 

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