School Tours
The Barron County Historical Society would like to invite your school to participate in our Annual School Tour/End of the Year Field Trip Program.
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To reserve your tour, please print, complete, and return the School Tour Form at your earliest convenience.
Picnic tables are available, if your group wants to bring a sack lunch.
If groups want to take part in a
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scavenger hunt
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play an game of vintage baseball
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reserve the one-room school house for an hour
let us know we’ll do our best to accommodate.
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Students are encouraged to dress in period costumes. The museum offers a small prize to the students who come in 1880s garb. Students and the volunteers really enjoy this.
Students can also:
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tour the museum grounds
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walking back through history
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chat with the volunteers
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enjoying a picnic lunch under the pines
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make and purchase jump ropes for $1.00
It's a great way to spend the day with the class.
After the visit, students will receive a Complimentary Pass to return to the Museum at a future date.
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![]() School Tours 2018Clothes washing at the Farmstead |
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![]() School Tours 2018Jingle Dancer from St. Croix Ojibwe |
![]() School Tours 2018Seeking out Vintage Baseball participants |
![]() School Tours 2018In the stocks at the Jail |
![]() School Tours 2018Learning to play Vintage Baseball |
![]() School Tours 2018Making wooden pegs |
![]() School Tours 2018Orientation with Village historian Carol Kettner |
![]() School Tours 2018Enjoying ice cream at the Saloon |
![]() School Tours 2018Examining unique finds |
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![]() School Tours 2018Learning about blacksmithing |
![]() School Tours 2018Learning how yarn is spun from wool |
![]() School Tours 2018The joy of old-fashioned toys |
![]() School Tours 2018Learning loom rug weaving |
![]() School Tours 2018Learning about the railroad |
![]() School Tours 2018St. Croix Ojibwe dancers teaching traditional dance to young visitors |
![]() 2018 School ToursExamining displays in Jerome Hall |

















