Kellogg, Iowa: Historical Treasures of Kellogg, IA

Museum includes a bank, a school, a church, artifacts from the One Minute Washer Company, and a two-story museum building filled with items from Kellogg's history and life styles of the previous century.

Local historical museum which seems to have encompassed the entire downtown area. Besides being housed in nine buildings, if you include the tour of the historical outhouse, it involves a hotel, a church, and a school house. There are the last remnants of the One Minute Washer Company, a huge room filled with nativity scenes, someone's lunchbox collection, a memorial to a famous local midget vaudevillian, a 1950's butcher shop (without the meat), someone's private 1950's bar, and the coolest kitchen I've ever seen.

It was as if the entire town was slowly funneling into these buildings. As people leave, they give the museum everything. The full tour took a couple of hours, but cost nothing. I would have felt guilty had we not left a donation. [Woods Prael, 07/28/2011]