Collections Carousel – Swanville’s McRae Brothers and George W. Friedrich Park

While doing research for the Stearns History Museum on George W. Friedrich Park, a natural conservation area in southeast St. Cloud, Minnesota, that is eligible…

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#Weymu40 – The Museum Is Half as Old as Historical Society

Based on their formation dates, the Morrison County Historical Society and The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum have tag-team anniversaries. The Weyerhaeuser Museum, which opened…

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#Weymu40 – Weyerhaeuser Museum a Place for Wildlife

The site of The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, a high spot on the western bank of the Mississippi River overlooking the confluence of Pike…

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#Weymu40 – Weyerhaeuser Museum’s 40th Anniversary Celebration

In August 2015, The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum in Little Falls, MN, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The museum was named for lumberman Charles…

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Fallout Shelter at LF Post Office

Yesterday the Little Falls Post Office donated a stack of historic materials to the Morrison County Historical Society. The stack includes a cash book ledger…

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#Weymu40 – Field Observations

While researching the additions made in 1981-82 to The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, I ran across a number of Field Observation reports made by…

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Think Before You Knock – Examining Which Buildings to Save

EVENT ALERT! WHAT: Think Before You Knock: A Conversation on the Importance of Historic Preservation WHEN: Thursday, July 2, 2015 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. WHERE: The…

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#Weymu40 – The Pine Tree History Center

In reading through past minutes of the Morrison County Historical Society, particularly at the time The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum was being built, I…

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#Weymu – Smoke-Free from the Beginning at the Weyerhaeuser Museum

The following three sentences in the minutes of the Morrison County Historical Society’s September 4, 1975, meeting stopped me dead in my tracks: “A discussion…

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