
Lockhart, Minnesota
Lockhart, Minnesota is a near-ghost town in Norman County, Minnesota. It’s an unincorporated community with just a few residents, but home to what was once a very impressive school. There were several volumes of a book called “The History of Clay and Norman Counties, Minnesota: Their People, Their Industries and Institutions” by John Turner and C.K. Semling published around 1918 with fairly detailed histories on most of the early settlers in the area. There are a lot of family names in the book that genealogists might find helpful.
A word of caution: a very large, very heavy section of roof hangs precariously overhead in the front entry of this school. We would not recommend anyone explore the interior.
Just inside the front door
A classroom
It’s hoppin’ downtown
Lockhart Public School
Photos by Troy Larson and Terry Hinnenkamp, copyright Sonic Tremor Media LLC