Summer Hours--Memorial Day-Labor Day
Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.  Sundays 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Rudyard is part of the Craft Heritage Trail. For more information,
 click here

Annual Ingathering
Last Saturday in June
Join us as area communities and former residents gather together to reminisce and share memories
Music, Entertainment, Food & Fun
For additional information or
 special viewing appointments. , contact 406-355-4322

Annual Christmas Festival is held the 1st Sunday of Dec.  Crafters, Artists, Music, Food and a visit from Santa himself.

Rudyard Centennial Celebration

Photos from Ingathering
 

Grand Opening
Vintage Auto Museum
2007
Click here for pictures

 

For your airport needs contact Dana Ness at 406-355-4257 prior to use.

The Rudyard Historical Society began in April of 1994.  We acquired the local railroad depot, moved it to a permanent location, and renovated it for a museum in which to house both the written and physical history of the hi-line towns of Joplin, Inverness, Rudyard, Hingham, Gildford, and Kremlin. 

One of the activities is the bringing together of the written history of the communities from several newspapers that were printed along the hi-line beginning in 1910.  That requires spending hours, months, and even years reading microfilm, typing of the stories, and making hardcopies of the information and storing it in vertical files, as well as in the computer.  Some of this project has already been done by members and is on going and constantly updating.  This project was originally started by Jan DeLaney in the years prior to the formation of the Rudyard Historical Society.

Different society members interview the few old timers who remain from the homesteading days.  That info is typed up and housed in the museum.  This has created a genealogy interest.  We have kept copies of Obituaries, Marriages, and the happenings of interest to assist in research.  We hope to have family members work with us in creating a genealogy chart of our homesteaders and their families from the area.  I encourage anyone interested to help us with their families chart, including a few pictures of their family.  We supply an 18" X 18" area to display a family genealogy chart.  Come join our fun!