Donations
Monetary Donations and In-Kind Gifts
Bonanzaville accept all forms of support to continue its mission.  We are a 501c3 organization and so all donations are tax-deductible.  If you would like to make a donation immediately please use the form below.  Or call for more information on how you would like to help.  Current projects include:

Lucian Barnes Pavilion
Restoring the Page Hotel and Brass Rail
Bonanzaville Endowment

For an Online Donation, please click the following button.

Or mail your donation, please send a check or money order to:

Cass County Historical Society
Bonanzaville, USA
1351 W. Main Ave
P.O. Box 719
West Fargo, ND 58078

Or call us at: 701-282-2822

Artifact Donations
Bonanzaville has an estimated collection of over 400,000 objects that help tell our history of Cass County and North Dakota.  To help facilitate the frequent donations we have a collections committee that helps to make the decisions of what come in and out of the collection.

Artifact Donation (loan) Procedure

1. Potential donor fills out a Potential Aquisition Questionnaire (PDF) and returns it to Bonanzaville
2. A curator might follow up with questions or arrange a visit to gain more information about the possible donation.
3. When all the information is gathered, the donation is voted on by the Collection Committee members.  The meet monthly or bimonthly.
4. You will be contacted by letter or phone of the committee’s decision. 
5. If the donation is accepted, the curator will arrange for transportation of the item and a Deed of Gift will be signed by the donor to transfer title of the item.

All artifacts, even if appropriate to the purposes of the Museum, may not be desirable acquisitions because of their unique relationship to or duplication of existing collections, the museum’s capability to preserve the object, and cost and space considerations.

Artifacts which are acquired by the Cass County Historical Society should meet the following requirements:

1. Acquisitions must reflect the purpose of the Cass County Historical Society.  (Our mission is to collect, interpret and display artifacts relevant to the history and cultural heritage of Cass County and the Red River Valley.)
2. The Cass County Historical Society must possess the capability to properly manage and preserve the acquisition.
3. Artifacts are considered high-priority acquisitions if:
   1. They were made and/or used in the area now known as North Dakota, or fill a specific need not presently represented in the collection.
   

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   2. Represent an individual and/or activity of exceptional importance to North Dakota.

Call either Alison Voss (Head Curator) or Andrew Nielsen (Curator) for more information (701-282-2822) on donating artifacts.