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Roots & Riddles

Legacy Lane Genealogy

Unearthing forgotten chapters from Fillmore County, Minnesota, Roots and Riddles shares true tales that shaped the county—from vanished towns and courtroom mysteries to old letters and lost voices. Hosts Preston and Lenora dive into the stories your grandparents heard once… but never wrote down.

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65 episodes

  1. The Black Widow of Granger? 26:43
  2. Spring Valley's Trailblazing Newspaper Woman 22:19
  3. A Deadly Teenage Rivalry in Rushford 23:44
  4. Two Fillmore County Boys at Gettysburg 23:53
  5. Did the Legend of Freddy Krueger Start in Wykoff? 17:53
  6. The Mystery of Wykoff’s John Doe 22:39
  7. Wykoff’s Imaginary Murderer 21:23
  8. The Great Wykoff Fire of 1895 19:44
  9. Wykoff’s Last Civil War Veteran 18:34
  10. Murder on the Minnesota-Iowa Line 24:58
  11. The Professor of Fountain 22:24
  12. The Boy Behind Spring Valley’s Captive Farm Story 26:56
  13. Lanesboro’s Bridge of Miracles 21:19
  14. The Mabel Farmer Who Vanished 19:59
  15. The Girl Who Vanished From Hamilton 36:39
  16. The Moonshine Medicine of Choice 18:07
  17. How Fillmore County Celebrated the 4th of July Centennial in 1876 20:33
  18. Preston's Runaway Stage 20:03
  19. The Crop That Could Have Changed Fillmore County 22:32
  20. The Night an F4 Tornado Hit Spring Valley 21:06
  21. Mabel’s Poison Corn Mystery 16:09
  22. When the Torch Gang Robbed the Spring Valley Post Office 27:24
  23. Did the Barker–Karpis Gang bury their loot near Chatfield? 23:32
  24. Luke Miller: Doctor, Lawyer, State Senator 22:18
  25. Fountain, 1874: A Murder That Took 28 Years to Solve 23:48
  26. Carimona: The Town that Slipped Away 14:21
  27. Bloodshed on the Frontier: Fillmore County 1856 19:40
  28. Spring Valley Caverns 28:24
  29. Something in the Water: The Root River Legend 6:07
  30. Deputy Walter Kruegel: A Preston Tragedy 20:24
  31. Accidental Cannibalism in Sumner Township 29:58
  32. Did Rushford Let Women Vote in 1854? 17:58
  33. Happy 173rd Birthday, Fillmore County! 19:46
  34. The Man Who Built Airplanes in Cherry Grove 13:58
  35. Found Near Canton: The Victor Patterson Mystery 25:50
  36. Was Fillmore County Running a Marriage Mill? 15:05
  37. Mishap or Malice? A Rushford Tragedy 12:43
  38. The Buffalo King of Spring Valley: A Statesman’s Rise 19:17
  39. The Woman Who Carried Lanesboro to America's Classrooms 17:35
  40. Stories from the Infamous Jordan Woods 10:51
  41. When Saber Tooth Cats Called Fillmore County Home 12:30
  42. The Night the Bells Rang in Preston 10:57
  43. The 1877 Earthquake 13:31
  44. Sears, Roebuck and Spring Valley 12:36
  45. Thankful for Fillmore County 10:43
  46. A Doctor's Descent: Preston's Near Tragedy 12:44
  47. Fillmore County's Boys in Blue 14:55
  48. Spring Valley: A Tale of Two Heists 13:39
  49. Fillmore County's Ghost Towns 16:25
  50. Capone, Caves & Cash: Prohibition in Fillmore County 14:38