• 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. 
Initial membership is $35.  Renewal membership is $30 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

In the last several months, we've received donations to assist with our move to the new museum building.  We send our heartfelt thanks to Alliance Communications, NorthWest Energy and Howard's American Legion Post #145 for their financial support.  We truly appreciate it! 



​​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
Dave Callies
Renee Forster
Justice Forster
Renee Laible
Gary Moschell
​Michele Neises
Dennis Wills
Colin Wunder


Contact us: 
Email: 
MinerCountyHistoricalSociety@gmail.com
Mail:
PO Box 245
Howard SD 57349
Street Address:
217 South ​Main Street
Contact the MCHS President:
​605-480-0125
  NOTE: The museum is currently closed, while we settle into our new location at 217 S. Main Street (the old Rivers Edge Bank building).  We hope to reopen in late October or early November, after renovation projects and display redesign projects are completed.

Our regular Sunday hours are 1-4 p.m. (every Sunday except for major holidays), May - December.  We hope to expand our hours when the new museum opens. 
If you'd like to visit at another time, please contact one of our board members.


Hours

Every Sunday 1-4 PM
or by Appointment
May through December


Closed major holidays when they fall on Sunday.  Please call for an appointment to visit during the week.
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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