• Definition of "Lyle"
• Opening of Minnesota as a territory
• Early settlers: Woodbury, Tov Olson, Six Mile Grove. Who stayed and who left
• Native Americans, who was here what happened to them
• Trains with maps and when they came to Lyle, other towns on the train lines, relative importance
• Death of Mona, map of Mona plat compared to Lyle. Hustad rename. William Caine
• Generic layout of a railroad town, Selah Chamberlain and other platted towns, how land transfer worked
• Early industries: corregated culvert factory and what became Lyle signs, canning factory, saw mill, cigar factory
• Long-time institutions: Ole Anderson jeweler, Legion, Lyle bank, Lyle Tribune, Lyle telephone company, Harry Attlesey blacksmith, Huntting Elevator, Dahl's, Young Trucking, Agri-Steel, Pythias, WCTU, Six Mile Grove, Our Saviors, Mona Church, Roy Hobkirk barber

By Year

• 1850s: first settlers, Six Mile Grove church organized
• 1860s: civil war, Six Mile Grove church built
• 1870s: Lyle platted and organized, high school, Mona church organized and built, Lyle Masons start
• 1880s: failed newspapers, Irgens MN secretary of state, WCTU organized
• 1890s: 1897 cyclone and 1891 fire, Lyle Tribune started
• 1900s: school and city hall built in 1906
• 1910s: WW1, Our Saviors Lutheran split from Mona
• 1920s: prohibition, Johnson/Springer murder-suicide
• 1930s:
• 1940s: WW2, Masonic lodge folds
• 1950s: 1957 basketball, 1956 fire north side of grove street, school remodel, closing of country schools, Lyle Tribune closed
• 1960s: 1962 basketball, Vietnam, Fossey deaths, more fires downtown
• 1970s: Centennial celebration, end of Pythias, fire Gamble store
• 1980s: depression: farm crisis, Hormel strike, 1982 Sharon Turnbull murder, 1983 Charles Drenth death
• 1990s:
• 2000s: rebirth: school, ethanol plant, Agri-Steel, Mona smoke shop
• 2010s: girls basketball and 2018 state basketball championship