A large badge and welcome banner hung over Sibley Avenue to greet Union Civil War veterans to the G.A.R. District Encampment in June 1889. PHOTO FROM MEEKER COUNTY MUSEUM ARCHIVES
DANELLE ERICKSON Meeker County Museum at the G.A.R. In June 1889, Litchfield was the site of the Grand Army of the Republic’s Northwestern District Encampment.…