Day 6 -- Mueseums of Milbank

Not only did Laura Kelly, Event and Tourism Director arrange and drive me around today to Dakota Granite and Big Stone Lake, but she also arranged for me to meet Bruce Johnson who was manning the Milbank Dolan-Justice Memorial Museum. Thanks again!

Bruce was kind enough to escort us through the Dolan-Justice Memorial Museum, the First Congregational Church of Milbank, and The Milbank Carnegie Library. The Dolan-Justice Museum.

The Dolan-Justice Museum is to the publishers of the Grant County Review and other local interests. You can read more about Phyllis Dolan and Clarence Justice here (Milbank's Newspaper Family).

The First Congregational Church of Milbank was built using funds from Jeremiah Milbank himself in the late 1880s.

The Milbank Carnegie Library was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.  It was built in 1906 as part of Carnegie’s philanthropic program to provide funding to libraries in towns large and small throughout the country.  It replaced a smaller library established in 1882.  The Carnegie Foundation put up $7,000 for the building if the city committed to annual funding and to supplying the land.  The library was designed by Minneapolis architect, Ralph D. Church.  The L-shape form of the Neoclassical library is unique among South Dakota Carnegie libraries, but not uncommon on a national scale.  The city of Milbank built a new library in 1979 and, in 1982, the old Carnegie library became the home of the Grant County Historical Society that was established in 1970.

The original map of the Village of Milbank Junction