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The Italianate-style building housing the museum was built in 1879 as the Worth County Courthouse. When a new courthouse was built in 1892, the building was used as a high school for more than 20 years and later as a public library, with the upstairs as a youth center. Open on Sundays, 2 to 4 p.m. First Sunday in June through the last Sunday in August (except: June 19th, closed for County Fair and closed on July 3rd).

Farmers in the area bought the two acres that comprise the cemetery in 1878. It was first known as the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Conference Cemetery and later as the North Fertile Cemetery. It now is Chapel Hill Cemetery. The last burial was in 1939.