2016 marks the 80th anniversary of the Morrison County Historical Society, which was founded in 1936. To honor the event, we are hosting a Mystery…
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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,…
View More #Weymu40 – The Contractors#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.…
View More #Weymu40 – The Museum’s Namesake (Redux)#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…
View More #Weymu40 – Safety and Security at the Weyerhaeuser Museum#Weymu40 – Exhibit Cases
Have you ever taken a good look at the exhibit cases at The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum? No? Then the architect’s nefarious plan has…
View More #Weymu40 – Exhibit Cases#Weymu40 – Permanent Exhibits at the Weyerhaeuser Museum
When The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum opened in August 1975, naturally it contained exhibits related to Morrison County history. Those involved in planning for…
View More #Weymu40 – Permanent Exhibits at the Weyerhaeuser Museum#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…
View More #Weymu40 – The Museum Is Half as Old as Historical Society#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…
View More #Weymu40 – Field Observations#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…
View More #Weymu40 – The Pine Tree History Center#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…
View More #Weymu – Smoke-Free from the Beginning at the Weyerhaeuser Museum