One of America’s Oldest Quilts Is Found in Clay County, Minnesota
You never know where things are going to turn up. One day you put a box in the attic, then it gets moved to the basement, then to a friend's house and so on. That's kind of what happened in Clay County, Minnesota, where a quilt donated to the Ulen Museum turned out to be one of America's oldest quilts, older than the country itself. Find out more about this amazing discovery of American History.
From The Twin Cities Pioneer Press:
"At the cozy museum on Main Street, everyone was buzzing Tuesday, Nov. 12, about a discovery there — a piece of our collective past. A donated item — a quilt — that we now know was made before this country even called itself America. Smack dab in the middle of the Ulen Museum among the Scandinavian antiques and old military uniforms. This quilt was donated years ago by a Ulen resident, but what nobody knew at the time was that it was made before the Revolutionary War. Made in 1769."
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(Below Photo: Fargo, N.D., quilt historian Kim Baird, left, shows volunteers at the Ulen Museum in Ulen, Minn., the back of a quilt dating back before the Revolutionary War)
