Moorhead Normal School
Moorhead Normal School

Under an act of the legislature approved March 5, 1885, entitled, “An act to establish a state normal school at the city of Moorhead, in Clay county,” a site of six acres of land has been selected by the normal school board, as provided by the terms of the law, and deeded to the state. …The schools at Winona, Mankato and St. Cloud are not only too remove from these newer sections to be of any practical value to them, but, according to the report of the superintendent of public instruction, are already full to overflowing and could be of but little benefit to them over if this were not the case. (The People’s Press, Owatonna, Friday, January 7, 1887, Page 6)

Messrs. Potlee and Kurte, of the building committee, appointed by the commission to locate the normal school at Moorhead, met at the Merchant’s hotel yesterday morning and awarded the contract to a Moorhead firm for $57,000. The appropriation for the new school is $60,000, and to keep within this the size of the proposed building has been lessened somewhat from the plans originally drawn. Work will be begun on the building next week and the building committee is confident that the structure will be inclosed before snow flies next winter. (Saint Paul Daily Globe, Thursday, August 11, 1887, Page 2)

The new normal school at Moorhead has opened and has about forty students to begin with, which number is expected to be doubled after threshing. (New Ulm Weekly Review, Wednesday, September 12, 1888, Page 7)