Yellow Medicine County Historical Society

09/27/2025

The Yellow Medicine County Historical Society would like to send our their condolences to the family of the Wood Lake firefighter who passed away last night. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them.

Our thoughts and prayers also go out to the other family that was in the accident, and we hope for a fast recovery to them.

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08/21/2025

The Granite Falls Fire Department was kind enough to add a few items to our display!! We would like to give a thank you to them, not only for the items, but for helping us put the display together!

07/22/2025

06/28/2025

Welcome back Tarin!

Tarin is back from his 10 months of studying at Oxford University in England and he will be manning the Andrew J. Volstead House Museum today!

Come see the home and the new exhibits. And you can ask Tarin about his studies and travels! Open today from 11am to 3pm.

05/22/2025

We've been a little busy this past few weeks getting the museum ready for the summer season. But! I'm happy to announce that we will be ready to open tomorrow for Memorial Day Weekend!!

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05/02/2025

So cool to be put in the paper! Thank you!

The Granite Falls Fire Department recently made a special delivery to the Yellow Medicine County Museum.

04/22/2025

Great news! We got our firetruck yesterday! We would like to send out a big thank you to wonderful people who took the time to helped us.
Pictured: Jason Ims, Pete Nielsen, Tyler Knutson, Eric Nerdahl, Nick Lund, Logan Schmidt, and Ryan Haar.
Not pictured: Bret Haar, Sawyer Nerdahl, and Carson Neilsen.

If I missed anyone, please let me know so I can add you! You all are wonderful and we greatly appreciate your help! Now is the exciting time to start putting together our exhibits for this season. We would like to ask if any of the Fire Departments, or if anyone knows of anyone from Fire Departments, of the county have any fire fighter items they would like to loan or donated to the museum for the exhibit. If you do, you can always contact us here, through our e-mail, or give us a call!

Thank you again to those who helped! Can't wait for people to the see the firetruck in person once we are open!

03/14/2025

We'd like to let everyone know, our annual meeting tomorrow, March 15th, will be cancelled. Have a safe and warm weekend!

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03/04/2025

**CANCELLED**

Hello everyone! I would like to share that our annual meeting will be at the Granite Run Golf Course on March 15th at 10am until 1pm. We will be having a lunch and speaker talking about Native/Indigenous American History.

It is a short notice, but it has been a busy couple of months for a few of us. We hope to see you there!

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