May 17, 2012

The Grant County Museum was established in 1963 by Prattsville High School history teacher Elwin Goolsby as a local history teaching project for his students. For years, the growing collections were housed in various classrooms. In 1970, the chamber of commerce purchased an old building for the museum’s first real home. But by the 1990s, the museum had outgrown this location. A 1992 fund drive resulted in the construction of the new museum, the W. R. “Witt” Stephens Building.