Three live grenades were discovered and safely removed from the Freeborn County History Center this week.
The history center said in a Facebook post the Albert Lea and St. Paul police departments responded on Wednesday, along with the St. Paul police bomb squad.
According to executive director Stephanie Kimble, all of the German grenades had been donated sometime during the 1960s and were from World War I.
Kimble said the center has been going through each box of collection items over the past five years to evaluate “the condition and appropriateness” of them when a curator came across one of the grenades this week…