1998 Governor's
Award for History winner
The museum features 40-ton Medicine Rock, sacred to the Lakota people.
Lewis and Clark passed near the rock in 1804. In 1995, Lakota artist Del
Iron Cloud painted a mural above the Medicine Rock and incorporated the
Frankhauser big game collection, which includes "The Grand
Slam," into another large mural.
The museum has information on local pioneers, an early 1900s Lagerstad
barbershop, a dentist office, law office, antique home furnishings, a
laundry room and country kitchen. The museum houses a military display
which includes two large canvas paintings of the Battle of Shiloh and
article from the Civil War through the Vietnam War.
The Maucher County School was moved to the museum property in 1993, and
periodically school sessions are held. In 2000, the museum acquired the
fully equipped 100-year-old Stocker Blacksmith Shop that is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places and is one of the last complete
blacksmith shops in South Dakota. A small carriage barn was moved to the
museum property in 2001 and repaired for public viewing.
More than 6,000 Potter County obituaries have been reorganized from the
late 1800s to the present. They are on file at the museum and available to
the public.
