| Enter the complex through the main building that has many different displays, some of which are a wildlife display, a collection of antique guns, a great display of indian and Eskimo artifacts, along with many other old items that helped the pioneers make their homes on the frontier. |  |
| Land Office, where homestead claims were filed, land was bought and sold. |  |
| Enter the 1886 Great Northern Depot and visualize the thousand of settlers who waited expectantly for the train the would take them ever westward. |  |
| Let the children go aboard the caboose and see firsthand one more part of history that is a thing of the past. |  |
| Go inside the cook car that fed the harvest crew as the traveled from farm to farm, threshing grain. |  |
| View the old-time dress shop were elegant dresses were sewn. |  |
| The blacksmith was a craftsman of may talents, from sharpening plow shares to the delicate crafting of an iron cross for someone's grave |  |
| Look in the jail so you can see where you could spend the night if you indulge too at the saloon and started a fight. |  |
| The livery was a place to rent a horse and buggy or stable your horses. |  |
| A typical Norwegian house. One of the predominant nationalities to settle here. |  |
| The all-faiths church was the first building to be brought into the village, not unlike the thinking of the pioneers who built the church at the first opportunity to show their faith in the land they were settling. |  |
| Next to godliness, the education of their children came a close second. These one-room country schools were so located about the countryside that no one had far to travel to get at least an 8th grade education. |  |
| Stand for a moment in the 1885 log cabin visualize that there was a family with nine children once living there. |  |
| The two story consolidated schoolhouse displays a life-size replica of Clifford Thompson, a locally born man who grew to 8ft., 7 inches tall. One room of this building depicts the history of 100 years this county has existed. A mural measuring 4 feet high and 80 feet long painted by an 80 year old man visually tells the story. |  |
| Plan to spend plenty of time browsing in the general store. The shelves are filled with long forgotten items. |  |
| The original bank building has long outlasted the town it came from. |  |
| Telephone switchboards were handled by a house wife in her own home. |  |
| Get in line at the barber shop for your saturday night bath. |  |
| The saloon has those big 5 cent mugs of beer. |  |
| Plenty of antique cars to hand |  |
| Old clock. |  |