Nominated for Governor’s Awards for History in 2000.
The mission statement is: to discover and collect artifacts, materials and oral histories of Clay County; to provide for the preservation of such materials and make them accessible to all who wish to study and examine them; to undertake the preservation of historic buildings and markers; to publish historical articles; to hold meetings and discussions to awaken public interest in local history; to acquire and hold real and personal property; and to do all acts necessary and incidental and related to general purposes.
The society maintains the Austin-Whittemore House Museum in Vermillion. Summer tours are offered each weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The hours are from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and weekends by appointment.
An Ice Cream Social
was held June 24th at the Austin Whittemore House Lawn with
several members of the Whittemore family in attendance. Each December the
society organizes a Candlelight Tour of Historic Homes in the Vermillion
area. An Attic Treasures Sale was held May 1st with the proceeds
going toward repairs to the museum. The society will raffle off two donated
mantle clocks. The gift donated by the Civic Council will be used for
repairs.
