Grant County, SD Historical Society

Grant County, SD Historical Society Personal, religious, agricultural, educational histories and the history of newspapering in our county.

The Society operates:
– The Grant County Historical Museum (Old Carnegie Library) in Milbank
– Historical House & Country School in Milbank
- The NEW Buggy Museum in Stockholm: OPEN 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Saturdays
– Agricultural & Tractor Museums in Stockholm
– The Brown Earth Indian Church outside of Stockholm
The museums in Milbank at 3rd St.-3rd Ave. are open from Memorial Day through Labor Day from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. on Sundays; and including Memorial and Labor Day, or by appointment.

On Saturday, the 13th of June, the Avantara Nursing Home from Milbank arrived, making a pair of highly-organized trips w...
06/14/2026

On Saturday, the 13th of June, the Avantara Nursing Home from Milbank arrived, making a pair of highly-organized trips with a total of thirteen residents enjoying a day @ the Buggy Museum. They were
particularily taken with the buggies & the petting goats.

The Whetstone Valley Tractor Club, with ten (10) gorgeous tractors & eleven (11) drivers, were blessed with a quite cool day in which to complete another of their annual driving tours. Their previous visit
was in August, 2023, in 100 degree temps, no wind. Yesterday, a bit breezy, they were able to sit inside the Ag Museum & enjoy their soudough bread sandwiches & empanadas.

Linda & Ed Fawcett brought four (4) young goats to be petted & paid
attention to in their new, temporary abode within our shed. One (1)
goat really liked the petting part while the others were quite happy with just being observed.

I think everyone had fun in Stockholm yesterday!

It is amazing how you can, sometimes, proof-read an ad & completely miss the largest error. Same message as below, but ...
06/09/2026

It is amazing how you can, sometimes, proof-read an ad & completely miss the largest error. Same message as below, but in the month of June!

On Saturday, June 13th we are attmpting to appeal to both ends of the age spectrum, old tractors driven on an annual pil...
06/08/2026

On Saturday, June 13th we are attmpting to appeal to both ends of the age spectrum, old tractors driven on an annual pilgrimage conducted by the more senior folks amongst us & formerly baby goats, now graduated to "petting goats", for members of the youngest amongst us. Now, we are not suggestiing that you are too old to pet a goat or too young to drive a vintage tractor.

Our chuckwagon willl again offer sourdough sandwiches & fruit empanadas as we have been all summer so far.

We are enjoying the presence of museum visitors each of the two (2) Saturdays we have been open in May. We offer very i...
06/01/2026

We are enjoying the presence of museum visitors each of the two (2) Saturdays we have been open in May. We offer very interesting artifacts, fun rides, great lunches, & stimulating conversations, if you like history. We can all see & feel the weather....

This will be the second Saturday the Buggy & the New AgMuseums will be open in the summer of 2026, & we feelwe are gett...
05/28/2026

This will be the second Saturday the Buggy & the New Ag
Museums will be open in the summer of 2026, & we feel
we are getting off to a great start again! But, I want to mention a couple of bumps in that, last Saturday, the 23rd of May, we said we would have Mexican empanadas. We didn't but we will on the 30th of May.

Ibalso said in another post that we would have baby goats on the 6th of June. Rather, we will have, now, petting goats on the 13th of June. They have grown a tad, you know!

This coming Saturday will be the beginning of our fifth year of operation with the Buggy Museum, our third year with the...
05/18/2026

This coming Saturday will be the beginning of our fifth year of operation with the Buggy Museum, our third year with the New Ag Museum & already our second year of having a chuckwagon with which to offer sandwiches - in the village of Stockholm, SD, population about 100 on a good day.

From the onset we have strived to create a venue, a place to see high-quality restorations of machines from 120 to 130 years ago, to ride in a couple of them, perhaps to be entertained on occasions, to enjoy a light $5.00 lunch with friends while sitting amongst forms of antiquity inviting you to think about history.

We have enjoyed your support in these past years, feel free to come back, bring your friends.

This is a flyer we will soom be placing throughout Milbank & in the towns in Grant County, businesses & public sites, re...
05/14/2026

This is a flyer we will soom be placing throughout Milbank & in the towns in Grant County, businesses & public sites, reminding everyone of the summer schedule we will be
following in 2026. Of the hundreds of images at our disposal relative to different artifacts to include in such a poster, the upper pair of images are of items given to us very recently. That hand-painted on china pieces by Laura Rodgers from the 1920's can still be found, and still be recognized by the donar, is nothing sort of amazing!

The lower photo is inviting you to take a summer road trip to just about every corner of this county, gently suggesting to
you that the local diversity we can so easily enjoy today was also vitally important in the previous centuries.

Just prior to our Open House event on Sunday, May 10th, 2026, Brad Wentzel will place our new sign on Main Street in Mil...
05/06/2026

Just prior to our Open House event on Sunday, May 10th, 2026, Brad Wentzel will place our new sign on Main Street in Milbank @ the Grant County Review newspaper building corner. All four (4) of our museums are just a short block away to the east. Stop in!

We are hoping that you will be able to attend our Open House on Sunday, the 10th of May, meet the new docent, Brad Wentz...
05/06/2026

We are hoping that you will be able to attend our Open House on Sunday, the 10th of May, meet the new docent, Brad Wentzel, & enjoy a taste of SDSU ice cream served by Mark Leddy & his baristas from The Bank restaurant in Milbank.

These are the new door window posters for the Buggy Museum & the New Ag Museum, across from each in a "venue setting" i...
04/25/2026

These are the new door window posters for the Buggy Museum & the New Ag Museum, across from each in a "venue setting" in
Stockholm, SD. Within this physical context we have a walkway
with our chuckwagon offering meals for sale meals & a loading area for our buggy riders to climb into or out of our carriages.

These posters highlight our growing paintings & prints wall as well
as our very nicely restored 1912 John Deere manure spreader.

Address

211 South 3rd Street
Milbank, SD
57252

Opening Hours

10am - 2pm

Telephone

+16059384192

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