MCHS Presents Ghost Towns Revisited Program

  The Morrison County Historical Society is presenting “Ghost Towns Revisited,” a program discussing towns that have disappeared from Morrison County’s landscape. The guest speaker…

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#Weymu40 – 40th Anniversary Celebration for the Weyerhaeuser Museum

On August 23, 2015, the Morrison County Historical Society held celebratory events in honor of the 40th anniversary of The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum.…

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#Weymu40 – Happy Anniversary, C.A. Weyerhaeuser Museum!

Today marks the official anniversary of The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum. On this day 40 years ago (August 24, 1975), the museum was dedicated…

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#Weymu40 – The Contractors

Throughout the series of blog posts regarding the 40th anniversary of The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, Foster Dunwiddie, the architect who designed the museum,…

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#Weymu40 – The Museum’s Namesake (Redux)

At the beginning of our #Weymu40 series of blog posts, we included a short piece on the namesake of The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum.…

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Collections Carousel – Bison Bone, circa 1830

One of the earliest additions to the collections of the Morrison County Historical Society (MCHS) was a bison bone that was donated to the organization…

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#Weymu40 – Safety and Security at the Weyerhaeuser Museum

To say that the collections of the Morrison County Historical Society are precious would be an understatement. The vast majority of them are irreplaceable. With…

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