AM Minnesota: Rice County Historical Society Celebrating 90 Years

Rice County Historical Society Executive Director Susan Garwood will be stopping by the KDHL studio today to talk about plans for their 90th birthday.

The RCHS had a number of homes before they got their own building in 1976 -- a county highway garage built in 1943.

The building has been upgraded, and last year the Historical Society finished an expansion of the building.

The 3,000-square-foot addition consisted of a new meeting room with technology to enable presentations, as well as a new collections storage room.

Garwood will be presenting a program on women from Rice County's past on Tuesday, January 19, at 7PM.

The program fee is $2 for nonmembers and free for members of the Rice County Historical Society -- another incentive to become a member.

During her presentation on January 19, Garwood will talk about Rice County women who were the first homesteading landowners and the 14 women listed as business owners in Faribault in 1880.

Women assisting in the founding of Morristown and Northfield will be included, as well as early Rice County female teachers and more.

AM Minnesota is at 9:30AM.

If you can't listen then, tune in to our YouTube channel.

Just click on the link and you'll be transported there like magic.

Wouldn't our founding settlers be in awe of our technology today?