Scarecrow Voting is OPEN
It's time to vote for your favorite scarecrows! We have 10 fantastic scarecrows braving the unpredictable weather this year to bring the harvest season to a close. Click here to vote for your favorite three scarecrows! The winner will be announced
Online Gift Shop Now Live!
We have some BIG NEWS - DCHS is debuting our new online gift shop! We already have books, calendars, postcards, and other gifts for sale right now, and hope to add more soon. You can have your order SHIPPED to you,
Scarecrow Contest 2020
It's time for the 3rd Annual DCHS Scarecrow Contest! We're looking for a group of friendly scarecrows to help get folks into the harvest spirit! Open to any groups, businesses, clubs, families, or individuals. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place
ATTN: Food Trucks/Food Vendors! Park at DCHS!
Attention local food trucks/food vendors! With the current Stay Safe Order keeping our doors closed to guests, we've got a big empty parking lot on Nokomis Street. Seems a shame to keep it to ourselves when a neighbor could maybe get
Memorial Day 2020
Cancelled doesn’t mean forgotten… And there’s ways for you to honor Memorial Day and our fallen service members at home or while safely social distancing. Memorial Day began as Decoration Day in the years following the Civil War. This day honors
Learning Activity: Meet Molly, the Cow who went through High School
No cow in Douglas County is as famous as Molly the Cow. She is quite possibly theo nly cow in all of Douglas County to have gone "through" High School. How did she manage that? It was late October in 1909,
The 1918 Red Cross Quilt
Have you seen the 1918 Red Cross Quilt at the Douglas County Historical Society? Today, in honor of National Quilting Day, we'd like to tell you about this amazing quilt (which raised $3,500 in today's value during WWI). In 1918, during
COVID-19 Self-History Interview
Everyone’s experience matters. Your history matters. Help us record your history. With events being as momentous as they are in Minnesota, we'd like to offer a tool in the form of a Self-History Interview to help us begin recording the daily lived
The 500 Block Fire – Feb 25, 2020
Feb. 25, 2020 Today, Alexandria lost a piece of our historic heart on Broadway. Some lost their businesses; some lost their homes. Right now, we are thankful that it appears no one lost their lives and that fire departments from near
Hotdish Team Info
The Great Hotdish Bake-Off will be held at the Broadway Ballroom in Alexandria, MN on February 1, 2020, 11am - 1pm. During our Hotdish Bake-Off, local teams will be competing for Douglas County’s Best Hotdish. Our guests will vote for