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The three buildings located on South Oak
Street and the corner of West Wisconsin Avenue in Grantsburg; make
up the society’s complex. The society’s exhibits housed in the 1800s
Norwegian Methodist Church is handicapped accessible. The original
Burnett County Jail, a three cell wooden structure, utilized from
1870-1920. The Stenborg Home, known as Emma’s House, built in the
late 1800s, donated to the society by descendants of Alex Stenborg,
an early Grantsburg blacksmith and renovated to demonstrate life
style of that era. The buildings are open to the public Sundays,
1:00-4:00 P.M. the first weekend in June through Labor Day.
2005-2006, exhibit in the museum “Saturday
Night in Grantsburg” depicts through staging, artifacts, and
photographs, early businesses: a general store, millenary shop, a
saloon setting, barber shop, drug store, theater, and a scale model
of the Court Yard Square bandstand that provided musical
entertainment for the local citizens.
Meetings and programs open to the public are
held the 3rd Thursday at 7:00 P.M., April through
September at the Senior Citizens Center downtown Grantsburg.
 The
Henry Peterson History/Resource Room at the Grantsburg Public
Library, 415 S. Robert Street, houses genealogy records. Records
relate to the Village of Grantsburg and the surrounding townships.
Included are local family histories, the Burnett County Sentinel and
the Journal of Burnett County on microfilm from 1870 to 1965 and
bound newspapers from 1966 to 2004. Census records 1880-1930, local
birth, death, obituary, marriage and cemetery records. An online
ancestral search is obtainable only at the library. Library hours
are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, noon to 6:00 P.M. and
Fridays 10:00 to 2:00 P.M. Although not necessary appointments are
preferred to insure a volunteer is available to assist. Call the
library at 715 463-2244.
The society does not charge for research
services, but your donation will help us improve our continuous work
in upgrading and preserving records for people interested in local
history.
The Grantsburg Area Historical Society is an
all-volunteer organization dedicated to serious responsibility of
caring for and preserving the history of the Grantsburg Area while
making all records accessible. If you have family stories,
photographs or artifacts you wish to donate, you may contact us at
Grantsburg Area Historical Society, P.O. Box 35, Grantsburg, WI
54840 or by email at
info@grantsburgareahistoricalsociety.com.
For additional information, please call the
museum at 715-463-2573.
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