Blue tape grid to help us find sleepers. We drilled 5 holes before striking the first sleeper. The additional 3 holes confirmed the east-west orientation of the sleepers. The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, 2019.

How to Find Sleepers

We at The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum have been on a weeks’ long hunt for sleepers in our Archives. Lest you think we have…

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A selection of loaned artifacts for the Central Minnesota Remembers Vietnam exhibit, Morrison County Historical Society, 2018.

Central Minnesota Museums Partner to Share Vietnam-Era History

Did you know that the Central Minnesota Remembers Vietnam project includes more than our exhibit? In fact, there is an entire slate of events. Thanks…

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#Weymu40 – A Pyramid in Central Minnesota?

When the Morrison County Historical Society was involved with designing a new museum in the early 1970s, the first architect hired was Stanley Fishman of…

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MCHS Receives Legacy Grant for Digital Access Project

The Morrison County Historical Society is pleased to announce that it has received a Legacy grant through the Minnesota Historical & Cultural Grant program administered…

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Save the Pierz Journals

The Morrison County Historical Society has a collection of bound volumes of the Pierz Journal newspaper that are so fragile they can no longer be…

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New Pierz Journal Microfilms

Within the collections of the Weyerhaeuser Museum there is a set of bound volumes of the Pierz Journal newspaper. Prior to their coming to reside…

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Museum Closed through November 1st

Due to the upheaval related to insulation work and the upgrade on our heating and air conditioning system**, The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum will…

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Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

Another online resource has come to our attention, this one via the Minnesota Historical Society’s Local History News e-newsletter. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries…

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Legacy Funding Input Meetings

In November 2008 the citizens of Minnesota voted to pass the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment as part of the Minnesota Constitution. The Legacy…

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Spooky Coincidences All Too Common

I’m currently researching the construction of the Highway 10 / 371 bypass around Little Falls, Minnesota. The process seems to have been long and involved,…

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