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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#Weymu40 – Weyerhaeuser Museum Additions

It may be hard to tell from looking at The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, but the building is not the same size as it…

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#Weymu40 – The Weyerhaeuser Museum’s Gazebo

On the south side of The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, visible as you walk through the front doors and into the courtyard, is a…

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#Weymu40 – The Mighty Mississippi

The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum is located next to a national landmark: The Mighty Mississippi River. That’s no accident. The river has been critical…

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#Weymu40 – The Museum Had Prairies Before Prairies Were a Thing

On September 22, 1977, The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum received a set of guidelines from Prairie Restorations, Inc. for prairie landscaping at the museum.…

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