Washington County Heritage Center

We are so excited to offer a special workshop series at the Washington County Heritage Center featuring experienced writers to guide you to creating a fun and meaningful piece of writing!  >>>Register here<<< Session 1: Thursday, October 3 @ 7-8:30pm Introduction and Personal History Workshop Leaders: Gary Goodman, Emily Krawczewski Session 2: Thursday, October 10 […]

WCHS is thrilled to announce an event on Wednesday, October 9 at 7pm called "A Conversation with Marlene Johnson" led by former lobbyist and artist John Kaul at the Washington County Heritage Center. Marlene M. Johnson is a true trailblazer in women's history, becoming Minnesota’s first female lieutenant governor under Rudy Perpich’s gubernatorial administration in […]

We are so excited to offer a special workshop series at the Washington County Heritage Center featuring experienced writers to guide you to creating a fun and meaningful piece of writing!  >>>Register here<<< Session 1: Thursday, October 3 @ 7-8:30pm Introduction and Personal History Workshop Leaders: Gary Goodman, Emily Krawczewski Session 2: Thursday, October 10 […]

We are so excited to offer a special workshop series at the Washington County Heritage Center featuring experienced writers to guide you to creating a fun and meaningful piece of writing!  >>>Register here<<< Session 1: Thursday, October 3 @ 7-8:30pm Introduction and Personal History Workshop Leaders: Gary Goodman, Emily Krawczewski Session 2: Thursday, October 10 […]

We are so excited to offer a special workshop series at the Washington County Heritage Center featuring experienced writers to guide you to creating a fun and meaningful piece of writing!  >>>Register here<<< Session 1: Thursday, October 3 @ 7-8:30pm Introduction and Personal History Workshop Leaders: Gary Goodman, Emily Krawczewski Session 2: Thursday, October 10 […]

    The original, non-musical film about a carnivorous plant with a taste for humans! Featuring a young Jack Nicholson. Produced and directed by B-movie impresario Roger Corman.   Retired film professor Steve Schroer will present a brief educational introduction the film. Popcorn will be served!

The event “Minnesota Rural Women’s Clubs” with Kate Thomas on Wednesday, November 6 has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to reschedule this event for 2025. Immerse yourself in the ideas, concerns, and activities of rural women’s clubs in Minnesota from 1920-1990s.  Learn about the crucial importance of gender history to civic engagement […]

Tip off the start to winter's most exciting sport with basketball history. Marc Hugunin will take us into the exciting world of youth sports and the transforming role they played in Minnesota with his book "Some Very Clever Teamwork: How Basketball Transformed Youth Sports in Minnesota." Marc is a member of the Washington County Historical […]

We are thrilled to announce that the Puzzle Competition is SOLD OUT! Please join us for Casual Puzzling from 12pm-4pm, or buy any of our puzzles here! 

  It isn't often that a community has a person who steps up and records its history. Stillwater and the surrounding area were fortunate to have a photographer named John Runk who not only took photographs of the area but also collected photographs from the community spanning over 100 years. Runk also enjoyed the newest […]

Tonight’s feature is two short silent comedies from Charlie Chaplin’s most creative period! Retired film professor Steve Schroer will present a brief educational introduction the film. Popcorn will be served! In One A.M., Chaplin plays a man who has trouble getting to bed because he’s had too much to drink.   In The Rink, he showcases his […]

The Washington County Historical Society invites you to celebrate National Toast Day in Stillwater, Minnesota: the birthplace of the automatic pop-up toaster.  Just over a century ago, Charles Strite was employed at a local manufacturing plant. Fed up with burned toast in the cafeteria, a great idea “popped” into his head, and the Toastmaster automatic […]