WCHS Trunk Programs

The Wright County Historical Society, thanks to the generous support of our donors, has created an educational Trunk Program specifically designed to help teachers in their classrooms. Each trunk is filled with hands-on activities and learning materials designed to enhance curriculum components taught in your schools and organizations. 

This program is free and sign-up is on a first come/first served basis. Each trunk is available for up to one week at a time. To sign up or learn more about this program, contact Geoff Welles: outreach@wrighthistory.org, or (320) 543.6225

 

Check out below what we offer with each program! to reserve a trunk please click the reserve buttons at each trunk offering.

Minnesota Fur Trade

Items in this trunk include:

  • Twist Tobacco

  • Trade Cloth

  • Seed beads

  • Bone Pipe Beads

  • Tin box w/Strike and Flint

  • Making Fire with Flint and Steel, Booklet

  • Horn Spoon

  • Miniature Birch Bark Canoe Replica 

  • Authentic Native American Harvested Wild Rice

  • Musket Balls and Buckshot

  • Quill & Quill Holder

  • Muskrat Spear

  • Awl

  • Tanned Buckskin, Muskrat Fur & Rabbit Fur

  • The Ojibwa: Wild Rice Gatherers, Book

  • Minnesota Native Americans Workbook, Book

  • The Broken Blade, Book

  • CD from the Minnesota Historical Society with PowerPoint teaching information

  • Binder for sharing of material and future trunk ideas

The Civil War

Items in this trunk include:

Uniform & carry items 

  • Union Kepi, or cap

  • Tin cup

  • Pouch of Coffee

  • Haversack

  • Soldier's Sewing Kit

  • Sesquicentennial Playing Cards

  • 1864 Playing Cards

study guides & student activities

  • Chronological Summary of the American Civil War Packet

  • Minnesota During the Civil War Packet

  • Civil War Fandex

  • Early Card Games Booklet

  • Civil War Uniforms Coloring Book

  • Civil War Crosswords Booklet

  • Songs of the Time (Compare/Contrast Activity)

Visuals | literature | miscellaneous

  • Handwritten Gettysburg Address Reproduction Visual

  • Gettysburg Battlefield Map

  • Declaration of Independence Document Visual

  • Declaration of Independence CD

  • Soldier’s Heart, Book

  • A Soldier’s Life in the Civil War, Book

  • If You Lived at the Time, Book

  • How do you Piece Together History? Poster

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