Roseau County Historical Society and Museum

Roseau, Minnesota 56751

121 Center Street East, Ste. 101, Roseau, MN 56751

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Opening Soon

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We have missed our visitors here at the museum. We are getting closer to opening. The original opening date was supposed to be January 11, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we will have to push back the date a week. We will be ready to wow you starting January 19. We will have regular hours […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – November 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2020 November 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29, 2020: Roseau County Museum recently received a copy of the autobiography of Jean Duncan Robinson Haugtvedt from one of her daughters, Marlys Olson. It’s very well-written and interesting. I’ll read some parts of […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – October 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2020 October 4 & 11, 2020: One of Moranville Township’s schools was written about in the Warroad Pioneer on November 29, 2000.  It was Isabelle Weitemier’s memories of school days in Moranville. Here is her story: I attended District 82, commonly […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – July 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2020 July 5, 2020: The Greenbush Theatre started in the Village Hall in 1924 and was managed by William “Bill” Paulson. Besides managing the theatre, he was a rural mail carrier like his father before him. In 1930 sound equipment was installed […]

Lighting Project Update

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The lighting project is really starting to progress over the last couple of weeks. It started off a bit slow with the museum closure due to Governor Walz’s Stay at Home order and trying to figure out how to handle that situation, then back-ordered items or wrong parts that arrived. Bergstrom’s Inc. of Wannaska has […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – May 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2020 May 3, 2020: Today I’ll be sharing another polio survivor’s story. This is about Carolyn Sabourin. She grew up in Malung, the daughter of Bob and Irene Snow. She had an older sister, Cindy, and a twin sister, Cherlyn. Carolyn […]

Sunday Morning Radio Reading – March 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2020 March 1, 2020: Modern highways have greatly changed transportation by automobile. Travel is vastly different from what it was in 1927 when Andrew Rasmussen made a trip to Pipestone in a Model T Ford. So different that his story about […]

Temporarily Closed

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Roseau County Historical Society & Museum Public Announcement March 17, 2020   On March 16, Minnesota Governor Walz released an emergency executive order to close “places of public accommodation” March 17 – 27, directing museums to close to the public.  The museum will be closed to the public starting at 5:00 pm, March 17 through […]

Roseau Stone Returns to Roseau County

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Reprinted from the University of Minnesota article by Erik Moore, U of M Archivist. The museum decided to do a soft release of information about the Roseau Stone coming back to Roseau County. This is a great article explaining the history of the stone. Look for more details coming soon. It will be on display […]

Museum Book Collection

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After completing an inventory of books and magazines it was obvious that a significant amount of books had accumulated over the past 92 years. The Collection Committee working with Britt, RCHS Director, determined that we needed to revisit the collection policy and look at decreasing the number of books in our collection. Although not an […]

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