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The Lac qui Parle County Historical Society has added a new item to our gift shop. We have begun offering a 2027 calendar. This 12-month calendar features interesting, humorous, and historically significant images from Lac qui Parle’s 125+ year history. These calendars are on sale at the museum gift shop and our website gift shop…
Claribell Ness’s 4-H Items A few weeks ago the Lac qui Parle County Historical Society received some new donations from a few members of the Ness family. The donations included a 1932 Singer sewing machine, 4-H memorabilia, and a hand-crafted dress made out of flour sacks. The items were donated by Gloria Gelle, Joyce Brinkman,…
Part of the new displays on Elevators and Creameries This past Sunday (May 18th) the Lac qui Parle County Historical Society hosted an open house program to show the community the new displays we are opening this spring. The program officially began at 2:00 but the museum was opened at 1:00 to give visitors some…
This next Sunday (May 18th) the Lac qui Parle Historical Society is proud to officially open our two new exhibits covering two important pieces of history from Lac qui Parle County. The main exhibit is focused on the many businesses of the county that handle and sell the agriculture products that are produced by the…
Special Program at the Madison VFW 04/30/2025 On April 30th at the Madison VFW the Lac qui Parle County Historical Society will be running a program dedicated to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. To help honor the veterans who participated in the war, the program will feature talks and…
This past Friday (February 7,2025) Todd Mahon and Joe Hoover from the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul came to the museum to share some advice and answer some questions that can hopefully help us achieve our goals of preserving Lac qui Parle County’s history and keeping the Museum organized. Mr. Mahon works as a…
On a summer day in 1896 in the town of Bloomer, MN a pair of men, D.M. Williams and Richard Omand were digging a culvert near a highway when they found in the dirt something that they never expected to find. In a bed of alkali clay, they found a body. Not a coffin with…
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