• About Us
    • Membership and Donations
  • Presentations and News Articles
    • Commercial Hotel Vilas
    • Canova Quilt Donation
    • Sheriff Bradbury
    • Argonne
    • Burbank School
    • Fedora
    • Mastodon Tusk
    • Tree-Stump Tombstones
    • Norwegian Independence Day
    • South Dakota Suffrage Movement
    • Twin Lakes
    • World War 1
    • National Suffrage Movement
    • The First "Town School"
    • History of the SD State Fair
    • Vilas
  • Family Research
    • Birth, Death and School Records
    • Genealogy Research
  • Photographs
    • Argonne
    • Canova
    • Carthage
    • Epiphany
    • Fedora
    • Howard
    • Roswell
    • Vilas
RURAL LIFE MUSEUM
  • About Us
    • Membership and Donations
  • Presentations and News Articles
    • Commercial Hotel Vilas
    • Canova Quilt Donation
    • Sheriff Bradbury
    • Argonne
    • Burbank School
    • Fedora
    • Mastodon Tusk
    • Tree-Stump Tombstones
    • Norwegian Independence Day
    • South Dakota Suffrage Movement
    • Twin Lakes
    • World War 1
    • National Suffrage Movement
    • The First "Town School"
    • History of the SD State Fair
    • Vilas
  • Family Research
    • Birth, Death and School Records
    • Genealogy Research
  • Photographs
    • Argonne
    • Canova
    • Carthage
    • Epiphany
    • Fedora
    • Howard
    • Roswell
    • Vilas

MEMBERSHIP & DONATIONS

Join the Miner County Historical Society!
​

We would love to have you become a member of the Miner County Historical Society. 
Membership is $35 annually.  

Joining is easy!  Just send us a note with this information:
Name, Mailing Address, City, State and Zip Code, plus your email address, if you have one.

​Mail the information, along with your check, to:
Miner County Historical Society
P.O. Box 245, Howard, SD 57349. 

Or stop at the museum and pick up a membership card.  It's that easy.

Donations to Support New Museum

We received grant funds to assist with our move to the new museum building.  We send our heartfelt thanks to Alliance Communications, Central Electric Cooperative, NorthWestern Energy, South Dakota Museum Association, and Howard's American Legion Post #145 for their financial support.  In addition, NorthWestern loaned Angie Christiansen to us to complete a mural as part of our Main Street display and also to create the lettering and logo on the old bank clock and on our front door.  She's so talented and we truly appreciate the work she did for us! 



​​Donate an Item to the Museum


​Do you have an item you'd like to donate to the Miner County Rural Life Museum?

Please download and complete the donation form (attached below in Word or .pdf format)
and bring the form and the donated item to the museum.
​
​Or stop at the museum and pick up a form.
MCHS Donation / Disposition Form (Word)
File Size: 29 kb
File Type: docx
Download File

MCHS Donation / Disposition Form (.pdf)
File Size: 68 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


Board members
Cecelia Wittmayer: President
Chloe Andenas: Vice President
Christy Stock: Secretary
Chrysti Protsch: Treasurer
Renee Forster
Justice Forster
Renee Laible
Bob Miller
​Gary Moschell
​Michele Neises
Dennis Wills
Colin Wunder


ALWAYS
FREE ADMISSION!

​ The museum is open 
when the "Open" flag is
​flying!


Extended Hours
June through December:

​Thursdays, 10-2 p.m.
Every Saturday and Sunday
1 to 4 p.m.
(except for major holidays and really inclement weather) 


Street Address:
217 South Main Street
Contact us: 
If you'd like to visit at another time, please contact us, using the information below.
Email: 
[email protected]
Mail:
PO Box 245
Howard SD 57349
Contact the MCHS President:
​605-480-0125​
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  • About Us
    • Membership and Donations
  • Presentations and News Articles
    • Commercial Hotel Vilas
    • Canova Quilt Donation
    • Sheriff Bradbury
    • Argonne
    • Burbank School
    • Fedora
    • Mastodon Tusk
    • Tree-Stump Tombstones
    • Norwegian Independence Day
    • South Dakota Suffrage Movement
    • Twin Lakes
    • World War 1
    • National Suffrage Movement
    • The First "Town School"
    • History of the SD State Fair
    • Vilas
  • Family Research
    • Birth, Death and School Records
    • Genealogy Research
  • Photographs
    • Argonne
    • Canova
    • Carthage
    • Epiphany
    • Fedora
    • Howard
    • Roswell
    • Vilas