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Albion Academy Historical Society, Albion, WI
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Albion Academy Historical Society

A historical museum in Albion, Wisconsin, housed in a two-story brick building beside a small park.

Albion, WI

About Albion Academy Historical Society

The society runs a historical museum in Albion, near Edgerton in southern Wisconsin. Its Kumlien Hall shows rooms furnished to reflect academy life from the 1860s into the early 1900s, including a parlor, dining room, kitchen, dormitory rooms, and a library. Other displays cover a 1918 classroom, a chapel, a local history room, and a costume room featuring the Albion Tigers baseball team. A separate rural one-room schoolhouse, the Sheepskin School, is also on the grounds. The site includes a park with playground equipment, a picnic shelter, and restrooms.

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