The Codington County Heritage Museum (formerly the Kampeska Heritage Museum) is a
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...
located at 27 First Avenue Southeast,
Watertown, South Dakota
Watertown is a city in and the county seat of Codington County, South Dakota, United States. Watertown is home to the Redlin Art Center which houses many of the original art works produced by Terry Redlin, one of America's most popular wildlife ...
, in the Carnegie Free Public Library building.
The Carnegie Library was built in Watertown in 1906 through a grant from the
Carnegie Foundation and functioned as a library until 1967 when operations moved to a new building further east in town next to what was then the newly built
Watertown Senior High School. A youth group briefly occupied the Carnegie Library building before its use by the Codington County Historical Society.
Codington County Historical Society
The museum is maintained by the
Codington County Historical Society. The group was founded in 1970 and was officially incorporated in 1974.
They put out a bi-monthly publication for paid members entitled the ''Codington County Courier.'' In the past, the publication was called ''Wagon Wheels.''
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Codington County, South Dakota
External links
Official website
References
National Register of Historic Places in Codington County, South Dakota
Museums in Codington County, South Dakota
History museums in South Dakota
Buildings and structures in Watertown, South Dakota
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