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Sargent County Museum

Forman, North Dakota

701-724-3194

 sargentcountymuseum@yahoo.com

  8987 Hwy 32, Forman, ND 58032

If you're sending something, use the address on the bottom of this column

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Admission:

FREE will offering

We do not have a way of taking credit cards but you can donate when you come if you do not have cash or check through Pay Pal.

Please follow us on FaceBook at Sargent County Museum for special events and open hours!

 

Hours:

Memorial Day - Labor Day

Monday - Friday                10 A.M - 4 P.M.

Saturday                          Only by appointment

Sunday                              1 P.M. - 4 P.M.


If not open call:

Al at 701-680-8166 in Forman or can try Pat the manager at home in Gwinner 701-678-6847

 

If sending something to us please send to: 

Sargent County Museum 

P.O. Box 283

Forman, ND 58032

Sargent County Museum

Membership at the Museum

Let us know that you would like to support us throughout the year with a membership.  We will need your: Name, Address, Phone Number, and Email Address for our records and what level membership you choose.  These memberships can be dropped off at the Museum or sent to Sargent County Museum, c/o Pat Olofson, 8034 Hwy 32, Gwinner, ND 58040.  Please make the checks out to the Sargent County Museum.  We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and contributions to the Sargent County Historical Society/Museum are tax-deductible to the extent of the law.

 

Memberships are:

Helper Level:  $50 a year

Booster Level:  $100 a year

Supporter Level: $250 a year

We Can Do It Level: $500 a year

We’ve Got Your Back Level: $1000 a year

 These members  at the $500 level and above will be listed on a member board.  All memberships will be listed on this page if you want it listed. If you do not want it listed we will just write "donor" and the amount given.   Membership will keep us going for everyone to enjoy what we have here at the Sargent County Museum.

 We are not changing admission which will still be a FREE will offering.

 

You can also remember us in your will and give a percent to us or a lump sum donation.

Memberships Given:

Dec. 2016 - Booster Level- Lola & Eugene Lewandowski

Jan. 2017 - We've Got Your Back Level- Pat & Marvin Olofson- funds went to kitchenette area, new blinds, new extra work space & office paint 

July 2017- Helper Level- Bill Anderson

July 2017 & 2020 Helper Level- Kathy Marquette,Rutland

Dec. 2017- We've Got Your Back Level- Steve & Janell McLaen - funds went to help with the gutters on the south side facing the parking lot

Dec. 2020 -We've Got Your Back Level- Steve & Janell McLaen

Helper Level-- Diane Wallin

We Can Do It Level- March 2018: Leo & Betty Rust

We Can Do It Level- Summer 2019: Leo & Betty Rust

We have Your Back Level:  2021 Tom & Warren Sederberg

We Can Do It Level: 2021  Charlie & Debbie Armstrong

We've Got Your Back Level -- 2019 Shirley Gillgard

 

DONATIONS:

May 2017 --- Donations given for Smart TV's and their mountings:  Full Circle Ag, Doosan/Bobcat, Land O' Lakes,Inc. Foundation

July 2017 --- Donation of $1,000 given by Wallwork Truck for BLD #2 dehumidifier

Ottertail 2017 --- donation for general expenses --- $1,000.

May 2018 --- $50 donation for gutters from Charles Anderson

May 2018 --- $500 donation for gutters from Grotberg Electric, Inc

May 2018 --- $50 donation for gutters Nick Storhaug, CPA 

June 2018 --- $100 donation for gutters from Forman Drug

June 2018 --- $100 donation for gutters from Lance Freier, Edward Jones

June 2018 --- $100 donation for gutters from Northern

Plains Ag

May 2018 --- $ 1,250 donation for concrete work and outdoor work from Rutland Sportsmans Club

2021 --- $780  Doosan/Bobcat  Materials for new Bobcat area cases

2020 --- $,1000.    Dakota Valley Electric/ Operation Roundup

2020 --- Nordak Publishing LLC  --- $500 towards Newspaper Exhibit

2020 --- American Legion Post #38 Cogswell --- $500

2020 --- El Zagel, Gwinner --- $600.

For the Rebuild of our New Building -

April 9th, 2023 --- Gordon Iseminger ---$2,000

April 13th, 2023 --- Judith E. Hanson --- $150

April 19th, 2023 --- John and Carole Saunders Call --- $100

April 20th, 2023 --- Harry and Vera Grammond --- $100

April 20th, 2023 --- RDO Equipment --- $1,075

April 21st, 2023 --- Lila Mae Hedlund --- $100

April 21st, 2023 --- John J. Lynch --- $1,000

April 24th, 2023 --- Steve and Sheila Wyum --- $750

April 28th, 2023 --- Scott and Peggy Ekstrom --- $100

April 2023 --- Ida Shipton --- $200

April 2023 --- Wayne Sebens --- $100

April 2023 --- Wild Rice Tractor & Plowing --- $200

April 2023 --- Milnor Luther League ---$300

May 2nd, 2023 --- Rutland Sportsman Club --- $25,000

May 2023 --- Larry and Delores Bohenekamp --- $50

May 2023 --- Reinertson Fund --- $100

May 2023 --- Mark and Jean Bopp --- $200

May 2023 --- Kathy and Kyle Marquette --- $150

May 16th, 2023 --- El Zagal Viking Patrol, INC. --- $5,000

May 30th, 2023 --- Kim and Jon Mund --- $500

May 2023 --- USW Local 560 --- $300

May 2023 --- American Legion Post #38 (Cogswell) --- $2,489.90

May 2023 --- Bison Booster Club --- $25,000

May 2023 --- Pay Pal (Go Fund Me) --- $6,618.74

June 5th, 2023 --- American Legion Aux. Unit #82 (Forman) --- $500

August 8th, 2023 --- Dakota Valley Electric --- $3,000

August 2023 --- Basin Electric Power Coop --- $3,000

August 2023 --- Co. Bank, ACB --- $3,000

October 10th, 2023 --- Dylan Ekstrom - $5,000

October 18th, 2023 --- Forman Alumni Association --- $1,510.22

October 2023 --- Doosan/Bobcat --- $10,000

October 2023 --- Gordon Iseminger (In memory of June Fritzen) --- $5,000

November 11th, 2023 --- Mike and Phyllis Wyum --- $500

December 11th, 2023 --- Klefstad Family Partnership --- $100,000 (In honor of Harlan and Lyla Klefstad and Wendy Kotchian)

December 2023 --- Pat Wichmann - $200

December 2023 --- Dennis Orth --- $100

January 30th, 2024 --- Hankinson American Legion --- $100

January 30th, 2024 --- Steven Klefstad --- $5,000

January 30th, 2024 --- Gerald Fritzen (In memory of June Fritzen) --- $5,000

April 4th, 2024 --- Bev and Michael Walstead --- $2,000

April 29th, 2024 --- Gerald and Judy Ringdahl - $500

April 29th, 2024 --- Shirley Gillgard Del Furia (In memory of Joel and Elsie Gillgard) --- $10,000

April 2024 --- Luke Anderson --- $500.63

April 2024 --- Full Circle Ag. --- $750

April 2024 --- Land O' Lakes --- $750

April 2024 --- David Hossebroek --- $250.02

May 7th, 2024 --- Marshall and Linda Johnson --- $50

May 10th, 2024 --- Reinertson Family Charitable Fund --- $100

May 23rd, 2024 --- Steve and Janell McLaen - $5,000

May 28th, 2024 --- Harlem Township in Sargent County --- $500

 

 GRANTS:

North Dakota Community Foundation (2016)

New Heating in BLD #1 

North Dakota Operation Intern Grant (2018)

1 to 1 match for a college intern and a high school intern(up to $3000) 

2021( Sept.)  North Dakota Humanities -- SHARP Grant  ($5000)

2020 ND State Historical Society and the state of ND for a  Cultural Heritage Grant for MAP (long range planning)

2021  Dept. of Commerce Grant( 50/50 grant) for LED lighting in BLD #2

2022  ND State Historical Society and the State of ND for a Cultural Heritage grant to digitize the newspapers