Beltrami County Historical Society
Society and Museum
The Beltrami Historical Society was founded in 1952. Our first location was adjacent to the present-day Bemidji Area Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center in downtown Bemidji, next to the famous statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. Here, the BCHS operated a museum, offered research assistance and pursued its mission of preserving Beltrami County history for more than twenty years. In 1993, the BCHS moved to a building located at the Beltrami County Fairgrounds and operated as a research center with no exhibit space or museum. In 1999, a collaborative vision to bring the BCHS and museum back to downtown Bemidji became a community-wide priority. Minnesota State legislative appropriations, investments by local units of government, area businesses and countless individuals achieved an ambitions goal of restoring the James J. Hill railroad depot. The exterior of the depot has been fully restored, and while maintaining the historical integrity of the interior, it was rehabilitated for adaptive reuse and opened as the new Beltrami County History Center, at 130 Minnesota Ave. SW Bemidji, MN on April 30, 2001.
Executive Director - Gary Rozman
(218) 444-3376
deP.O.t@beltramihistory.org
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Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Admission for Adults is $5, Seniors $4, Children from 6-12 $1 and Children 5 & under are free.
<a href="http://beltramihistory.org/">www.beltramihistory.org</a>
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130 Minnesota Avenue Southwest
Bemidji, MN 56601
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Blackduck Area History and Arts Center
History and Arts Center
The Blackduck Area History and Arts Center was formed to preserve local history and showcase local artists. The Center holds the TIN PAN gALLErY, a gallery and shop that mostly holds work by local artists with talent in woodcarving, quilting, and other creative work. The Center’s library contains a collection of past documents including, township oral histories, past scrapbooks, obituary records, and past high school yearbooks. The sites that are held within the Center, hold collections of past school tools, as well as outdoors sports equipment. Their General Store hold a display of original switchboards operated in Blackduck and Hines by Blackduck Telephone Company. As well, they have a Military display, which contains a numerous amount of artifacts including past pictures, uniforms, and recorded stories from local veterans. Their Ethnic display also contains a replica of a real Indian wigwam. The Center is in constant flux of acquiring new artifacts and offering different exhibits at a regular basis that will help promote a historical experience and education for all ages.
Contact: Shirley Gilmore
(281) 835-4478
gilmores@paulbunyan.net
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Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Saturdays 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Free Admission
<a href="http://www.blackduckhistoryart.org/">www.blackduckhistoryart.org</a>
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P.O. Box 223
133 Main Street NE
Blackduck, MN 56630
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Grant County Museum and Historical Society
Museum and Historical Society
The Grant County Museum and Historical Society goes as far back as exhibiting the prehistoric roots of the Grant County area by including fossilized mammoth bones. Other exhibits reflect the Sioux and Chippewa heritage, along with preserved tools and other artifacts from the past. There is also a display on the early European settlers, culminating in a walk down an early 20th century street. Some other artifacts on display include an old ox car, a stagecoach, a furnished log cabin, and a schoolhouse. As well, the Museum and Historical Society also offer genealogical study for the public. The types of the material available for research include past censuses, indexed obituary and marriage records, naturalization records from 1883 to 1943, past Grant County newspapers, plat books, and unique histories on the community itself. This research does cost five dollars per hour and any addition charge on photocopying.
Director: Patricia Benson
(218) 685-4864
gcmnhist@runestone.net
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Hours: Monday-Friday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm & 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm & 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Summers Only)
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Free Admission
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Box 1002
115 Second Street NE
Elbow Lake, MN 56531
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Cass Lake Museum & Lyle's Logging Camp
Museum and Camp
The Cass Lake Museum & Lyle’s Logging Camp are two sites holding the past pioneer logging artifacts. Within Lyle’s Logging Camp, it includes replicas of old equipment used by passed loggers as well as six building sites made by retired forester, Lyle Chisholm, that contain past used tools and photographs. Next to the Camp, the Cass Lake Museum is held in the formerly used railroad depot. There they hold numerous amount of historical artifacts on the Ojibwe tribe as well as photos and displays of the daily pioneer lifestyle during the 1800s.
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(218) 335-6723
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Hours: May 26-October 1
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Free Admission
<a href="http://www.casslake.com/history.html">www.casslake.com/history</a>
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PO Box 548
Cass Lake, MN 56633
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Hubbard County Historical Society and Museum
Historical Society and Museum
The Hubbard County Historical Society and Museum is situated in the county’s first courthouse, with each room featuring a different aspect of early life in Hubbard County. In the Ira Benham Resource Center, located on the first floor of the museum, it hosts as the site for all of the Society’s archives, photos, and information on genealogy research. Some of the information that they have include birth and death records, censuses from 1885 to 1905, enterprise newspapers from 1882 to 1890, funeral home and cemetery records, naturalization records, marriage and obituary records, plat books, and WWII Military scrapbooks. They also hold information on the Ojibwe tribe including information on their past treaties, a Chippewa Half-Breed Scrip, a White Earth Land Lists of 1911 and Indian Allotment List and Numbers. Among their exhibits, the Society and Museum include other sites such as a Pioneer cabin, a one-room School House, a room on High School Memory featuring past year books, a Communication Room featuring old typewriters and switchboards, farming tools, Native American artifacts, and vintage textiles.
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(218) 732-5237
historicalmuseum@arvig.net
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Hours: May through September: Tuesday – Saturday 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
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Free Admission
<p><a href="http://www.hubbardcountyhistory.org/">www.hubbardcountyhistory.org</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnhchs/index.html">www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnhchs/index</a></p>
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P.O. Box 327
Old Country Courthouse 301 Court St
Park Rapids, MN 56470-6127
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Roseau County Historical Society
Historical Society and Museum
The Roseau County Historical Society has been in existence for more than 95 years, and the museum portrays the past as well as the present. They include, within their museum, old photos and artifacts on the county’s past development such as information on agriculture, manufacturing and trade. As well, they also have artifacts and histories on the Native American settlements and a Military Service file that holds photographs and biographies on past military personnel. Alongside their exhibits, the Roseau County Historical Society also includes an extensive amount of research material for genealogy information. This feature does cost five dollars for one-on-one help; however, they still include cemetery, obituary, and death indexes, starting from the late 1800s, within and the surrounding counties of Roseau. Other information they include are school and county tax records, marriage and naturalization indexes from 1904 to 1915, files on past businesses and churches, past high school yearbooks and past Roseau county newspapers from the late 1880s to present.
President: Glenn Holm
(218) 463-1918
rchsroseau@mncable.net
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Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
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Free Admission
<a href="http://www.roseaucohistoricalsociety.org/">www.roseaucohistoricalsociety.org</a>
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121 Center Street E. Suite 101
Roseau, 56751
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Wadena County Historical Society
Historical Society and Museum
The Wadena County Historical Society helps “preserve the kinds of historical items that one might find in their very homes, creating an intimate and personal history of the county.” Some of the museum’s exhibits include the Great Northern Railroad with oral histories and pictures during its building in the late 1800s, a spinning wheel exhibit, including the process of making yarn and fabric from spinning wheels during the pioneer days, and an Ojibwe exhibit highlighting an Indian mural that is a replica of a wigwam. Another resource that the society includes is the county’s historical placement, such as maps and old photographs of the agriculture and living of the past. As well, they have a priced resource to do research on genealogy. Research material includes, obituaries, town newspapers and business townships all ranging from the late 1800s to early 1900s.
Director: Lina Belar
(218) 631-9079
603wchs@arvig.net
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Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Free Admission
<a href="http://wadenacountyhistory.org/">www.wadenacountyhistory.org</a>
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603 North Jefferson
Wadena, MN 56482
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