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George Hormel, founder of Hormel Foods Corp., and his wife donated their 1871 home on Fourth Avenue Northwest to the Austin YWCA, a nonprofit women's organization. In the 1990s, the residence became the Hormel Historic Home, with a nonprofit to support it.
The Hormel home only has maybe a dozen items from the Hormel family, the home's executive director Laura Helle said.
A major construction project at the home, however, has unearthed possible additions to that collection.
On Monday, contractors digging at the site as part of the Hormel home's $1.8 million expansion, slated to be done by Nov. 1, started finding numerous glass bottles, parts of plates and other items buried on the property's east edge.
Medicine and perfume bottles and possibly ink containers are among the newly found collection. Some are fully intact while others are broken or in pieces.
"This is really exciting for us," Helle said Thursday while analyzing the items.
Dustin Heckman, executive director of the Mower County Historical Society, joined Helle on Thursday in the home's atrium to put on white gloves and further examine the items, as a crew continued expansion work outside the windows.
Heckman estimated the items possibly are from the early 1900s to early 1930s, but further research is needed to know better. The historical society and Hormel home plan to research further, looking up information on the companies listed on items.
At the site of the discovery, the soil is a lighter color, which contractors thought might be ashes.
It was fairly common in the early 1900s, Heckman said, for people to burn garbage and bury it.
Heckman said he believes the items likely were used by the Hormel family because some came from Cincinnati, Boston and New York companies. With their wealth, the Hormel family was able to order items from that far away, he said.
Lettering on the bottles also appear to be from the early 1900s, he added.
Helle said she hopes the items can be cleaned up and put in a display case in the home's expansion area.
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