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Isanti County
Historical Society
1700 E. Rum River Drive S., Suite K
Cambridge, MN 55008
Phone: 763-689-4229
Email: ichs@izoom.net

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Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9:30-4:30pm. Research inquiries should be done by phone or email.

Our Heritage Center, located in the northwest corner of the Isanti County Fairgrounds, off Highway 95 and Flanders Street in Cambridge, was set on fire by an arsonist on July 8, 2011 and burned to the ground.
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ISANTI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY WEB SITE.

Saturday, April 20 at 1 p.m.
Hardy Center, Cambridge-Isanti High School
Doors open at 10:30 am | Expo begins at 10:30am

Click here for details and to purchase tickets.

CLICK HERE FOR
On-Line General Seating Ticket Offer.  
Buy One, Get One 1/2 Off.
(General Seating Only. Offer NOT available on ticket purchases at Cub Foods in Cambridge.)
We are featured in this Minnesota Historical Society video featuring those who have benefited from a Legacy Grant. Watch it today!

Our rebuilding effort...

Work on the new Heritage Center began on Oct. 1 and we will move in late this spring. We know you are just as excited as we are!!

Watch the walls go up in these timelapse videos.

After much study, we decided to rebuild the Heritage Center at our existing site in the northeast corner of the fairgrounds.

Thanks to all who gave input as we researched what was best for ICHS.

Dates set for 2013 Old Time School camps

• June 10-14 - 9am-1pm            • June 17-21 - 9am-1pm
• June 24-28 - 9am-1pm            • July 1-5 (no school on the 4th) - 9:30am-1:30pm
 
Cost this year will be the same as last: $50 for nonmembers and $40 for members' children or grandchildren
The Heritage Center property before the fire.
The Heritage Center was devastated after the fire.

ICHS Heritage Center Destroyed by Arson Fire (click here for details)

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Now accepting paper/photo items

While we do not have a large amount of space to accept larger items, we have begun accepting paper/photo items to replace burned copies. If you feel you have something of importance to Isanti County history (large or small) either email  ichsdonate@gmail.com, or fill out an online form by clicking here. You will then be contacted to discuss your item(s).

Do you have...

Following is a list of these family histories we would need to replace. If you have a copy, or know of someone that may, please contact the office. You would not necessarily have to donate your copy, but if you would allow us to scan a clean copy we would then not have to trim the burned version. The less dirty work the better, I say.  
    1.    My Father’s House (Raether, Luebke & Krueger Family History)
    2.    The Life & Times of Viola Lindell Reichel (as told to Gail Szumylo)
    3.    Britta Kajsa (by Junette Erickson Person)
    4.    Mama Remembers, Vols. 1 & 2, Memoirs of Lydia Pearson Anderson
    5.    Sweden to Wyanett & Karmel by Morris R. Peterson (500 printed, we had issue 78)
    6.    Falk/West (Roy) by Carol Falk Olson
    7.    Blomquist/Stanius
    8.    Pearson Tribe
    9.    Ditt eget Släkt (Byss-Bolin, Stoneberg) Family