Women of Rice County:

1850s to 1920s

The “Women of Rice County” program is back by popular demand!

RCHS director, Susan Garwood, will present a program on women from Rice County’s past. This program will touch on the Rice County women who were the first homesteading landowners and the 14 women listed as business owners in Faribault in 1880. In addition it will look at the women who took over when their husbands died and finished the work of founding Morristown, the woman who helped found Northfield, and much more.

Garwood  will discuss Rice County’s female teachers, artists, business owners. homesteaders, and wives whose achievements made Rice County what it is today.

The Women of Rice County Program will be Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 7:00 PM.

The program will cost $2.00 for non-members, and is free for members of the Rice County Historical Society!

The Rice County Historical Society is located at 1814 NW 2nd Avenue, Faribault, MN.