Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families & Their Neighbors
June 28 - Oct 19 Fridays and Saturdays: Noon to 5:00 p.m. Sundays: Noon to 3:00 p.m. Admission: $5.00 (includes a ticket for a tour of Orchard Lawn)
203 High Street, Mineral Point, WI (the former bank building, corner of High and Chestnut Streets)
This traveling exhibit, developed by the Chippewa Valley Museum, is supplemented with local stories, photos, and collectibles.
Contribute your history! Email MPHS@mineralpointhistory.org with information and advice about local items to include.
The exhibit includes photographs of familiar features of the rural landscape, including this image from the MPHS Glass Plate Negative Collection.
Storing a winter's supply of hay meant somebody spent a lot of time with a pitchfork.
Special Thanks to the following for financial support for this exhibit:
Farmers Implement Store, Mineral Point Premier Cooperative, Mt. Horeb Farmers Savings Bank, Mineral Point Ross Soil Service, Mineral Point Sloan Implement, Mt. Horeb Iowa Couty Cattlemen's Assoc., Mineral Point Dodgeville Agri-Service, Dodgeville Farm and Fleet, Dodgeville Ritchie Implement, Cobb Rockford Map Publishers, Rockford, IL Point of Beginnings
Mineral Point Historical Society • 234 Madison Street • PO Box 188 • Mineral Point, WI 53565 608.987.2884
