1851- The U.S. government imposed a treaty on the Dakota people, Siouan-speaking Native Americans who had been in this territory since at least the 17th century.
The treaty marked part of the decline of the Dakotah Nation, adversely affected by infectious disease and warfare.
1856- September, Miron W. Skinner and his brother moved to Northfield and opened the second town store.
1859- Charles Augustus Wheaton bought John North's financial interests and became one of the early town leaders.
1865- Jesse Ames moved to town and bought mills from Charles Augustus Wheaton.
Muus, Harold Thorson and two area farmers, members of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.
Once an editor of the Northfield News, Schilling became a Holstein breeder and a prominent agriculturalist in the state and the nation.
He received many honors and awards in his field, among them election to the Petroleum Museum Hall of Fame in 2001.
It manufactured laminated products such as fabric for the inflatable "Echo" satellites and under-dashboard circuits for cars.
After a merger in 2004, it became Multek Flexible Circuits, Inc. 1959- Dallas Haas, a building contractor, moved to Northfield with his wife Sandra and found a ready housing market.
In June 1981, Haas and his wife, Sandra, purchased the Stuart Hotel and began work on what became Division Street’s most famous building (after the First National Bank), the Archer House.
1991- Greg Heyman opens Hogan Brothers’ Acoustic Café[2] 2004- Maggie Lee celebrated 50 years in journalism.
[1] 2020- The Archer House Inn, a hotel which had been operating since 1877, is destroyed in a fire caused by a faulty smoker in a barbecue restaurant stationed in the building.