The Codington County Heritage Museum is located in the county seat of Watertown, South Dakota

Watertown, South Dakota

Watertown is a city in and the county seat of Codington County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 21,482 at the 2010 census. It is also the principal city of the Watertown Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Codington and Hamlin counties...

. It has occupied the Carnegie Library building in Watertown since it opened in 1974.

The Carnegie Library was built in Watertown in 1906 through a grant from the Carnegie Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York, which was established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 "to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding," is one of the oldest, largest and most influential of American foundations...

 and functioned as a library until 1967 when operations moved to a new building further east in town next to what was then the newly-built Watertown Senior High School

Watertown Senior High School

Watertown High School, or WHS, is the only public high school in Watertown, South Dakota. The school is notable as it was the first school in the state in which every student and teacher was issued a laptop computer.- Laptop program :...

. A youth group briefly occupied the Carnegie Library building before its use by the Codington County Historical Society.

Codington County Historical Society

The museum is maintained by the Codington County Historical Society. The group was founded in 1970 and was officially incorporated in 1974. They put out a bi-monthly publication for paid members entitled the Codington County Courier. In the past, the publication was called Wagon Wheels.