The 2025 Caribou Historical Society Membership Drive!
Mar 05, 2025 12:06PM ● By Bill Horsley, Caribou Historical Society
Old photo of our home at 100 E. Hooper. Built in 1881 and housed the ZCMI store for several years before becoming privately owned. Members of the John Stoor family owned the building since 1920 until 2018 when it was deeded to The Caribou Historical Society. It has been renovated to a great degree and currently houses our museum and archives
We are running a little behind this year, but it isn’t too late to ask for your support for 2025 so here goes. The Caribou Historical Society is seeking new members and asking all current members to be sure to send in their dues for 2025. After looking at other nearby historical societies it is apparent that we need to reach out and try and include not only active members that regularly are able to attend meetings and help with work projects but also seek supporting membership to help with the funding of research, building maintenance and utilities. We have made some pretty amazing progress since we acquired the old Stoor’s Grocery building late in 2018. Obviously getting the building back to a usable state was the most pressing need and we made huge strides in the first year or two and now the vast majority of the building is in use. There are still three additional rooms in the east apartment addition of the building to be finished, but we had to pause to get the garage remodeled to house our 1950 Ford pickup that Evan Kackley purchased new in 1950 from Coppard Ford located in the building where Eastman Drug store is now. Caribou Ford was very generous and instrumental in the restoration of the truck that is currently on display in their showroom. You should stop in and check it out! We finally replaced the used trailer house furnace we had somewhat inefficiently been trying to use to keep the chill off in the winter and so for the first winter since we.ve had the building we haven’t had to shut the water off to make sure we didn’t freeze up in the basement. We are constantly adding new items and soon it will be a must to finish the final three rooms yet to be finished. Continuing membership and new members are important to help us keep up with the overhead on the building and sustaining our growth.
The purpose of the Caribou Historical Society is to protect, promote, manage, and celebrate the history of Caribou County, including the culture, lifestyle, and development of its citizens, businesses, and institutions, for the benefit of present and future generations to understand and enjoy. If you are a member please renew your membership soon. If you are interested in what we are doing, please consider joining our effort by choosing the membership that best fits your interest and join our team!
Individual Membership: $25 annually
Family membership: $35 annually
Contributor membership: $100 annually (name displayed on erasable board inside 100 E. Hooper)
Sustaining membership: $200 annually (name displayed on erasable board inside 100 E. Hooper)
