Springbrook church museum

Brats and Hamburgers 🍔 fundraiser Friday June 28th and Saturday June 29th from 10 am to 3 pm. Lynn's Meats on Hwy 63 Hayward. Stop in on the North side of Hayward and enjoy a delicious Brat or Burger.
Proceeds go to the Springbrook Church Museum!! Pass the word to your family and friends!

This week we had four damaged stain glass windows replaced by our local stain glass experts. Michael and Paulette Ross owners and specialist from Liturgical Environments Co. were hired to do this project. They specialize in architectural glass for places of worship, leaded glass, faceted glass and carved glass. Their business is located in Hayward. Wisconsin.

We were very fortunate to have them do our small project at the museum. The project started over a year ago when we noticed cracks in four panes of our stain glass windows. We began to do research and searched for experts to fix the window panes. Doing such work is a true art and very few artist still work at this profession. We were so lucky find the specialist, but also so close to our community. Getting funding for the project began. Thanks to generous donations for this project we finally got on the schedule to have our project of replacement of the damaged windows. All four windows were replaced and finished this week.
Here are a few photos of Liturgical Environments Co. removing the windows and replacing with the new

Open weekends this summer. Come see some local history! Free admission.

Beautiful picture of the museum at night.

So thankful for these generous donations to help keep our local history alive for future generations and protect our Church Museum in Springbrook and all it's contents! With out help from our community we would not be able to share the stories and artifacts at the museum.
We thank the Spooner Advocate for sharing these pictures and information.

Washburn County Historical Society luncheon to say thank you to some of our volunteers that make local history alive in our Shell Lake and Springbrook museums.

🦁 Hayward Lions Club presented a donation yesterday $1,000 to assist the museum in projected projects. Which include heating the building over the winter months and repairing stain glass windows. We are very appreciative of this generous donation!!🦁

The Museum will be closed for the season. We want to thank all the volunteers that spent so much time, energy and love to create and enhance the local history of our community.

Over the next few months we will continue to work on funding so we can upgrade the building. Our to do list includes installation of a furnace so over the winter we can heat the building so more structure damage of the interior and contents will not be occurring. Also purchasing the fuel for the furnace.
We have some stain glass windows that need repairing. Both projects are expensive.
We have received some private donations but in need of more financial support to get these projects completed.

If you are interested in helping with our needs please feel free to contact us at
715.808-2632. If you would like to send a donation:
Springbrook Church Museum/WCHS
N9698 Zopp Rd.
Hayward, Wisconsin. 54843.
We are a non profit organization and upon request will give you a tax deduction receipt for your records..

We feel our local history is important for our community as well as the knowledge shared with our younger generations so they have soild ground to build their lives on.

Hope to hear from our old as well as some new friends of the Springbrook church museum.

The Springbrook church museum summer hours are done for the season. However if you would like a tour contact Melissa at 715.808.2632. She will be happy to open up so you can enjoy our local history!!

Springbrook Church Museum will now be available to tour by appointment. Our summer hours are completed. If your interested feel free to contact 715.808.2632 for a personal tour.

New and beautiful Native American collection at the museum.

A special thank you to Rebecca and Jim Jacobs, from South Dakota, for taking time out of their vacation. Not only did they donate time helping cleaning, organizing but seen our need for some items. They donated and had them shipped to us: special hangers for our garments, garment rack for our military uniforms display, mannequin heads for our hats, and key identifiers for our various keys. Thanks Jim and Becky for your help, donations and Interest in local history.

Lot of pictures of early settlets.

More gems!

Alfred Trepania donated land to build a church for the local people. Franciscan missionary priests organized the 1st catholic community in Springbrook. They served as missionary priest to the community. The church was built by local volunteers and completed in 1906. Same building stands today. In 1984 the catholic diocese closed the small church because of lack of clergy to serve the mission church. The church was sold for $1.00 to the Washburn Historical Society. It then became the church museum. It is served by local volunteers and open to the public Friday (1 pm to 6 pm) and Saturday (10 am to 3 pm). Displays include local military, logging, Native American, early school days, community and home exhibits as well as church exhibits. Free admission. All are welcome to stroll down our local history and enjoy the exhibits.

Welcome to our new page. Please stop in and explore our local history. We have several displays including: church, community, military. Home, commercial, Native American, logging, local Lions club, and much more.