Goodhue County is located in eastern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Dakota county to the north and northwest; Rice county to the west; Dodge and Olmsted counties to the south and Wabasha county to the southeast.  The Wisconsin counties of Pierce and Pepin are at it's eastern border.

• U.S. Census Bureau for Goodhue County Profiles and Population Summaries.
• Zoomable MAP of Goodhue County, Minnesota.
• Political Graveyard for Goodhue County
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - Prairie Island near Welch, MN
• Red Wing, MN
• All About Red Wing
• Goodhue County Historical Society, Red Wing, MN
   1166 Oak Street - Red Wing, MN  55066   Phone: (651) 388-6024.
• A Brief History of the Pottery Industry in Red Wing, MN
• History of St. Mary's Parish - 125th Anniversary 1858-1984, Bellechester, MN.
• Luxembourg On My Mind - site by Fausto Gardini.
• The "Shady Question" in Red Wing:  The Densmores Import a Contraband - "...In The Late Summer of 1863, Benjamin and Daniel Densmore stood amidst a brimming pool of surplus labor: freed slaves from recently captured Rebel territory..."
• Welcome to Goodhue County Home Page
• Goodhue County Brief Description and History
• Some Burials at St. Columbkill Catholic Church Cemetery, Belle Creek Township,Goodhue County, Minnesota by Anne Lamb (E-mail: <alamb@juno.com> or <AnnL7777@aol.com>).
• Gustavus Adolphus College
   800 West College Avenue - Saint Peter, MN 56082.
   Eric Norelius, an immigrant Swedish Lutheran Pastor, founded Minnesota Preparatory School, in Red Wing, in 1863.   The same year, it was relocated to East Union, and, in 1865 became St. Ansgar's Academy.  In 1876, the school moved to it's present location in St. Peter, Nicolette County, where it became known as Gustavus Adolphus College.
• Goodhue County Government Departments
• Goodhue County Recorder (For Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records)
   Courthouse - 509 West Fifth Street - P.O. Box 408 - Red Wing, MN 55066
     Phone: (651) 385-3148.

• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Department of Health
• How to order a birth or death certificate from the Minnesota Department of Health.
Contact the Minnesota Department of Health for certified Birth records from 1900 and certified Death records from 1908.  Certificates may be ordered by mail, phone, fax, and in person at the office.  There is a fee for obtaining birth or death certificates.
Minnesota Department of Health
  Attention: Vital Records
  717 Delaware Street Southeast
  P.O. Box 9441
  Minneapolis, MN  55440-9441
  Phone: 612-676-5120 (For birth records, press 4; For death records, press 5)
Records prior to these years, may be requested from the County  Registrar/Recorder in the county where the event occurred.
• Instructions on obtaining certificates of marriage or divorce decrees and index search.
• MN Dept. of Health list of County Registrars/Recorders: choose county

School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.
 
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