Douglas County Historical Society

08/16/2025

The rain has moved on and we are setup at East End Family Fun Days! We have historic photos of old East End, free coloring packets/crayons for the kids and chances to win a $2k Fuji fat tire bike, sponsored by Outdoor North or a Callaway golf driver - come on down and enjoy all the food trucks and stop and say hi!

08/15/2025

08/12/2025

Friday at 5pm is the deadline to apply for our Museum Manager position to help lead DCHS into the future....

Position Summary:

The Douglas County Historical Society (DCHS) seeks a dynamic and self-motivated Museum Manager to lead the organization in preserving and promoting the rich history of Douglas County. As the sole full-time staff member, the Museum Manager is responsible for the strategic, operational, and financial leadership of the Society, requiring a high degree of autonomy, initiative, and multi-disciplinary skill. Key responsibilities include stewardship of the collections, fundraising, project and facilities management, partnership-building, and ensuring the Society fulfills its mission as a vital community resource.

08/01/2025

Stop at our table at Billings Park Days (by Smooch A Pooch) tonight and Saturday and get a chance to win this Fuji Wendigo fat tire bike, donated by Outdoor North plus other cash prizes. Grab a FREE historic buildings coloring book and crayons for the kids and look at historic photos of Billings Park and Tower Avenue. See you there!

08/01/2025

The Dionne Quintuplets visited Superior in 1943 to dedicate a ship (photos from the museum in the comments) and it's meaningful to read about how fame can effect children. Learning from human history so that we can do better is part of makes our shared work so important at our museum and others in the area...

The Dionnes, the first quints known to have survived infancy, became a global sensation and prey for the greedy. And Cécile came to resent it all. Only one of the five now survives.

07/29/2025

We're Hiring: DCHS seeks a dynamic and self-motivated Museum Manager to lead the organization in preserving and promoting the rich history of Douglas County. As the sole full-time staff member, the Museum Manager is responsible for the strategic, operational, and financial leadership of the Society, requiring a high degree of autonomy, initiative, and multi-disciplinary skill. Key responsibilities include stewardship of the collections, fundraising, project and facilities management, partnership-building, and ensuring the Society fulfills its mission as a vital community resource.

07/27/2025

As part of our annual History Classic Golf Scramble, our major fundraising event, we are now selling raffle tickets to win a Fuji Wendigo Fat Tire Bike, generously donated by Outdoor North. This bike retails at $1,999.99. There are 2nd and 3rd place cash prizes as well. Tickets are $20 each and the drawing will be held at our golf scramble at Nemadji Golf Course on 9/5/2025 at approximately 6 pm.
You can get your tickets by stopping into DCHS Thur & Fri 10-6 or Sat 10-2, visiting us at Billings Park Days in front of Smooch A Pooch Aug 1 & 2, at East End Family Fun Days August 15-16. We take VENMO too so it's EASY to grab your chance at a fabulous prize and support DCHS.

Interested in supporting our golf tournament through sponsorship or registering a team? Check out the registration link at douglashistory.org

07/25/2025

Come see us again today corner of 14th and Tower. Shop great bargains downtown and get a raffle ticket for this sweet bike!

Come see us at the corner of 14th St and Tower Avenue during downtown Ridiculous Days in Superior. Buy a chance for this $2k fat tire bike donated by Outdoor North and other cash prizes, look at photos of historic Tower Avenue and the kids can grab a FREE DCHS coloring book & crayons (while supplies last)! We will be here Thur-Sat 11 am to 4 pm.

It’s a beautiful day on historic Tower Avenue!!

07/24/2025

Come see us at the corner of 14th St and Tower Avenue during downtown Ridiculous Days in Superior. Buy a chance for this $2k fat tire bike donated by Outdoor North and other cash prizes, look at photos of historic Tower Avenue and the kids can grab a FREE DCHS coloring book & crayons (while supplies last)! We will be here Thur-Sat 11 am to 4 pm.

It’s a beautiful day on historic Tower Avenue!!

07/04/2025

DCHS will be CLOSED on Friday 7/4/25, reopening Saturday 7/5 at 10 am until 2 pm.

Please have a happy and safe Independence Day! 🇺🇸

07/01/2025

Does someone know the old art of Shorthand? DCHS has 3 photos of these same women but don’t know how to decipher the writing on the back.

Can you help solve the mystery?

06/13/2025

DCHS is really excited to see what the new owner is doing to restore the James S. Ritchie house in East End of Superior! Please check out Wesley’s You Tube channel and subscribe, like and follow along as he lifts this grand, historic home up from the brink of extinction!

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