Thank you for helping preserve our history for future generations!

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We greatly appreciate those who support the Historical Society with their yearly dues. These dues go towards annual expenses such as insurance, maintenance fees, light bulbs, printer ink, etc.  Donations and memorials help fund special projects each year. The past four years have been challenging for us as we dismantled our exhibits, sorted through artifacts and moved them to our temporary storage in the old fire station at 12301 N Lakeshore Drive before the museum was demolished. We have have been working on plans for the new museum and welcome you to stop by and see the projects we are working on. We have a small work area and have been busy unpacking, sorting, and trying to determine which artifacts to use and “stories to tell” in the new museum. The city and Historical Society partnered on a Capital Project grant from the state and we received $763,656. for the exterior portion of the museum which the city plans to start constructing this summer!

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It is up to us to raise money to finish the interior displays. However, the original  volunteers who created the museum exhibits 33 years ago are no longer with us so we are going to need help from volunteers with construction skills to pull this off.  We are continually looking for additional grant sources and we recently secured one grant to hire an exhibit curator to help us with a few of our exhibit designs. We are hoping to recreate several  bigger and more  interactive and “hands on” exhibits to take the place of some of the  original ones. (See the back page for more details.) In addition to attending an 8 week course on Designing Exhibits, we have visited several museums around  the state and have brought back many ideas we can use to make sure “our stories” are preserved for future generations. In June 2021, the Grimm House was moved closer to the lake and sat vacant for almost a year and a half while the Mill Spur was being built. Since then the porches have been rebuilt and attached, a fence and two arbors were installed and painted, and thanks to Aspire Concrete we have a beautiful brick patio in the back. We have been working on planting our cottage garden and are eager to host themed Tea Parties as a fundraiser. We will be open for tours on Wednesday Market days from 3:00-7:00, June through August. Currently we are looking for plant donations for the cottage garden, for volunteers to help with the planting and upkeep of the garden and for volunteers to show visitors the Grimm House.

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​For more information, email at lakestevenshistoricalsociety@gmail.com , or leave a message at (253) 261-8678. Again, thank you for supporting our historical society. It takes a community to help preserve our history for future generations and we wouldn’t be able to accomplish this without your help!

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MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS:

Individual membership                    $20.00

Senior membership (- 63)                 $15.00

Family membership                           $30.00

Business/professional                        $100.00

Individual lifetime membership     $250.00

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