Mammoths, Mastodons, and More!

On Saturday, December 2, from 10 am to noon, the Brown County Historical Society is hosting Mammoths, Mastodons, and More! Last year, in 2022, M. R. Paving & Excavating donated a partial mammoth tusk and hipbone fragment to our museum’s collection. The remains came from a Columbian mammoth, a species that lived throughout North America and went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Since then, Joyce Dauer donated a partial hipbone from an American mastodon, found in the same gravel pit in New Ulm as the mammoth remains.

In celebration of these discoveries, the BCHS is holding a family friendly program from 10 am to noon on December 2. The program will include children’s activities and will feature a table of fossils presented by staff from the Science Museum of Minnesota. At 12:00 pm, there will be a presentation by the Science Museum staff in our Annex building at 12 North Broadway Street.
Both remains are now shown in the Brown County Museum in a new display case.

We recently had the tusk radiocarbon dated to determine its age and are holding a guessing contest from now until December 2. Whoever guesses the age closest to the radiocarbon date will receive a small prize. We will reveal the age before the lecture on December 2.
For more information, contact the BCHS at 507-233-2616
Email: education@browncountyhistorymn.org