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ABOUT OUR MUSEUMS:
The Northern Gila
County Historical Society operates the Rim Country Museum and the
Zane Grey Cabin located in Green Valley Park on West Main Street
at...
700 Green Valley Parkway
● Payson, Arizona
Hours: Opened 6 days a week/10:00am-4:00pm
Open
Wednesday thru Monday/Closed on Tuesday
Please Note: Sunday Winter Hours are
1:00pm-4:00pm
The
Rim Country Museum and replica of the Zane Grey Cabin are quaintly nestled
within the green rolling hills and three lakes of the award winning Green Valley
Park, which was built around these historic structures.
OUR AWARDS:
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2010 - Rim Country Museum named one of top 10
western museums by True West Magazine for 2010. See April 2010
issue of True West or visit
www.twmag.com
for more information.
2008 ~ Museum receives the
Governor's Tourism Award.
1988 ~ Museum receives the
Governor's Award for Historical Preservation for restoration of the
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OUR
GIFT SHOP:
RIM COUNTRY MUSEUM GIFT SHOP!
700 Green Valley Parkway - Payson Arizona
Next to the Green Valley Lakes & Zane Grey
Cabin
There are many new gifts
available, including...
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"We
Danced ALL Night", a wonderful collection of
Payson History written by Carrie J. Carlson. |
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Unique Kitchen Items including
Our Popular Javelina Cookie Cutter and
brown sugar disks! |
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GREAT selection of
Zane Grey books, cookbooks, Western Books
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FEATURE ITEMS:
MARGUERITE NOBLE
CD ~ "Till We Break
Trail Again"
and
DVD ~ "Tales of the Rim"
"Till We Break
Trail Again"
was written and narrated by Marguerite Noble. The CD
contains 27 audio clips, approximately 65 minutes,
of local stories as narrated by Marguerite Noble.
These clips were originally played on KMOG radio.
Introduction is by Blaine Kimble of KMOG radio.
Music excerpts by Dr. Peter Roland. Missing audio
clips are narrated by Pat Cline.
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Marguerite Noble DVD "Tales of the Rim"
contains approximately 20 minutes of audio clips
containing a mixture of Marguerite Noble stories of
pioneer life. Audio is accompanied by photographs from
Rim Country Museum archives.
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MISSION
STATEMENT:
To Acquire and Preserve Artifacts and Writings Related to the History
and Culture of Northern Gila County for Exhibit and Research.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
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Betty
Berryman,
President |
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Charles Brown,
Vice President |
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Diama
Visdas,
Recording
Secretary |
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Nancy Purkey,
Treasurer |
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Lisa Rasley,
Corresponding Secretary |
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Lita Nicholson |
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Sandy Carson,
Archivist/Accessions Chair |
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Peter Bernard |
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Carol Sigsbee, Archive
Assistant |
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Northern Gila Country
Historical Society
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