White Bear Lake Area Historical Society

The White Bear Lake Area Historical Society in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, serves the public with a museum, archives and resource library. The collection, which spans nearly 150 years, includes artifacts, photographs and records relating to the resorts, railroads, businesses and governments of the five municipalities that touch White Bear Lake, just north of St. Paul. For the Minnesota Digital Library, the historical society contributed images of White Bear Lake's heyday as Minnesota's first resort town and includes images of the resorts and visitors and the communities that developed to serve them.