Tourist Office
We will be writing about the Rosholt Pioneer Museum which is located in the Rosholt Fair grounds. The museum has a schoolhouse, granary, log house, another log building, and a Phoenix Sawill. Each of these buildings was brought in from the area. The museum was started by Malcom Rosholt in 1948 when a log cabin built in 1881 was moved there. The Rosholt bank paid $500 to move it to the fairgrounds. Almost a decade later the Rosholt bank paid enough money to buy and move a granary. The old Garfield schoolhouse was moved to the Hill Park in 1962. The Phoenix sawmill was the last building to be moved to the museum in 1989. The steam powered sawmill operates two times a year, during the Rosholt Thresheree’s annual picnic and during the fair. The schoolhouse has desks and pictures of President Abraham Lincoln and President George Washington. All the buildings have many artifacts of the past including axes, bear traps, ox shoes, typewriters, and even an armor-plated vest.
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