CCHS Online Gift Shop

Stumped by what to get your family and friends for holidays, birthdays, and other special occasions this year? Look no further than the Carver County Historical Society!

The Carver County Historical Society has many great gifts and research materials available in our museum store. The items listed below are available by visiting the museum or calling (952) 442-4234. Members receive a 10% discount on all purchases in the museum store. All prices include sales tax.

CCHS also has an online store at www.cafepress.com/cchistsoc. Currently available are t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, bags, caps, and other great gifts all bearing the CCHS logo. Keep checking back as more great merchandise becomes available!

Books
  • ...Having a Swell Time! Carver County's Vintage Postcards published by Southwest Newspapers
    A collection of postcards from Carver County's past, collected from area residents and local historical societies, including CCHS.
    Price: $13.89        Members pay: $12.50
  • Chanhassen: A Centennial History by Daniel J. Hoisington
    This book was written in 1996 in celebration of Chanhassen's centennial. The first complete history of the city, this book is based on primary sources, oral history interviews, and private family collections.
    Price: $14.91        Members pay: $13.42
  • History of the Minnesota Valley: Carver County compiled by George E. Werner and Charles M. Foote
    First published in 1882, this is the earliest comprehensive history of Carver County and its communities. This book is one of the standard reference works for researchers today.
    Price: $9.05        Members pay: $8.15
  • Marching Barefoot compiled by Ralph C.E. Peterson
    This collection of Civil War letters were written by Peter Daniel Anderson to his wife and children in Scandia, Minnesota.
    Price: $13.95        Members pay: $12.56
  • The Carver Story 2nd Edition by Lucie E. Hartley
    This local history, written by a Carver resident, recounts the story of the village of Carver from its early exploration to the flooding of the Minnesota River in 1993.
    Price: $19.17        Members pay: $17.25
  • Introducing the Yellowstone Trail: A Good Road from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound by Alice A. Ridge & John Wm. Ridge
    The Yellowstone Trail opened the great Northwest to auto travel, including the main route to Yellowstone National Park from east and west coasts. This account traces the early history of the trail from its inception in 1912 to 1930.
    Price: $6.34        Members pay: $5.71
  • On the Yellowstone Trail Additions to the original book by Alice and John Ridge, 2003
    This book is a collection of minutes of Yellowstone Trail Association meetings, the group's history, advertisements and promotional pieces, and original maps of towns on the trail.
    Price: $31.90        Members pay: $28.70
  • Waconia: Paradise of the Northwest
    Second printing now available! This book contains a detailed early history of Waconia and its lake. It is the first of two history books about Waconia, the second of which has not yet been released.
    Price: $49        Members pay: $44.10
  • Mayer Centennial: 1886-1986
    A history and pictures of Mayer's first 100 years.
    Price: $21.30        Members pay: $19.04
  • Those Were the Days: Memories of Elsie Lillian Florence (Reed) Gentry by William Vernon Reed
    The recollections of one woman growing up and raising a family in rural Minnesota
    Price: $13.92        Members pay: $12.52
  • The History of St. Victoria Parish: 1857-1956 by John A Diethelm
    This historical sketch is concerned with the lives of the missionaries, priests, and first settlers who formed this congregation in Victoria, MN.
    Price: $6.34        Members pay: $5.71
  • 125th Anniversary of the City of Young America, MN
    This book, published in commemoration of Young America's quasquicentennial, traches the first 125 years of its history through recollections and photographs.
    Price:$21.30        Members pay: $19.17
  • Cologne: The First 100 Years
    A commemoration of the early pioneers who settled the area and helped establish the city as it is today.
    Price: $24.44        Members pay: $22


  • Other Items For Sale
  • Carver County Historical Society T-Shirts
    Price: $12.78        Members pay: $11.50
    SALE! 2 T-shirts for $20
    Price: $20        Members pay: $19.17
  • Carver County Historical Society Mugs
    Price: $7.40        Members pay: $6.67
  • 1880 Carver County Plat Map
    Price: $9.59        Members pay: $8.63
  • City of Watertown Coffee Mugs
    Price: $7.40        Members pay: $6.67
  • Hamburg Coffee Mugs
    Price: $7.40        Members pay: $6.67
  • Hamburg Beer Steins
    Price: $8.47        Members pay: $7.63
  • Historic Norwood Times Newspaper
    Price: $5.33        Members pay: $4.79
  • Stiftungsfest Souvenir Pin
    Price: $5.33        Members pay: $4.79
  • Stiftungsfest Souvenir Glass Stein
    Price: $10.65        Members pay: $9.59
  • Stiftungsfest Souvenir Ceramic Stein
    Price: $15.98        Members pay: $14.38
  • Stiftungsfest Souvenir Sweatshirt
    Price: $29.82        Members pay: $26.84