G.A.R. Hall & County Museum Conducting Several School Tours This Month

The Meeker County Historical Society will be hosting the annual Memorial Day Picnic later this month in the Litchfield Opera House. It’s scheduled for May 26th from 11-to-1:30, and the G.A.R. Hall and Meeker County Museum will also be open that day.

Museum Executive Director Danelle Erickson says April was a busy month as several local history enthusiasts attended the statewide Civil War Roundtable Symposium, and a local group also toured the State Capitol last Saturday. She says the next Civil War Roundtable discussion at the G.A.R. Hall in Litchfield will be on Thursday, May 8th, at 1:30 p.m. as a speaker will be there from St. Cloud to talk about E.P. Alexander and the use of hot air balloons.

Erickson says the museum staff will be conducting several school tours this month. She says they have 16 tours scheduled as students from 4 different school districts will visit the museum – one class at a time.

Erickson says there’s usually something in the museum that catches the eyes of the children and it’s often the Civil War-era weapons in the G.A.R. Hall. She says the museum at 308 North Marshall Avenue in Litchfield is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10-to-4 and Saturdays from noon-to-4. For more information, go to meekercomuseum.org.