We cover the history of the area from prehistoric times through mining, logging, and immigration. Arts displays include Carl Gawboy and Albin Zaverl.

The Ely-Winton History Museum is located on the campus of Vermillion Community College. When you enter Ely you continue down Sheridan St (Hwy 169). You stay on Sheridan all the way through town until you reach 17th Ave, you then take a left. Take your next right on Camp S and you cant miss the college located on the left side of Camp S.

The Ely-Winton History Museum desires to help you understand the land in which we live and what it offered to the people who lived here. A community arose as people from diverse backgrounds came here to make a living and fulfill their dreams. The museum interprets what these people experienced in this land, what they strove for, how they coped with problems, what they achieved, and what they have passed down to their descendants. Using photographs, maps and artifacts, the displays present the different phases of 12,000 years of local history from prehistoric to the present.

The Ely-Winton Historical Society was started in the 1960s but came to be part of the Vermilion Community College in the 1980s when the State, the City and the IRRRB funded a new Fine Arts Wing to the college which included a state of the art museum for the historical society. We are located at the college but are governed by our own board.