2010 Belmond Historical Society Activities / Acquisition     BACK

• Wow ! What a successful year.
• With increased number of visitors of all ages
• Growing Membership  Reporting of nearly 100 members.    (In 2006  we had 5!)
• 2nd Year Anniversary in New location
• Selected for membership in the prestigious Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area.
• Received a positive response from  the Sugar Beet display from patrons.
• Thoe Studio glass plate negatives,  ended with over 7000 images!. Superb clarity and quality.  Well over 400 hrs  spent scanning, cataloguing, and Archival storing the negatives . If your looking for a photo of a area relatives, maybe we can help. Copies of pictures will be available for a small fee .
• School House at  River park is  a on-going project with more additions planned. Completing of new higher foundation to prevent further flood damage and  Painting  inside and out has been done. As funds become available we'd like to build a belfry for the school.
• Always updating inventory of our collection.
• Digitizing of 150 years of Belmond newspapers. Phase ONE Papers 1876-1925  + Phase TWO   in 2011  A great resource for researchers and genealogists.     ask for details.
• Museum  provided  window display  in Honor of 100th Anniversary of Scouting in America. With  the 70th Anniversary of Belmond local Troop 16; with the attraction of lighted display  for our visitors  after museum store hrs.
•  Holidays Featured temporary doll collection  throughout the museum  by Karen Thayer.