05/30/2026
The Chaska History Center has built an exhibit to honor all the historic women of Chaska, such as the woman whose determination brought about Chaska’s first library, the lady who saw a need to keep Chaska seniors in town, in comfortable, affordable housing, and a woman who brought a major highway brushing past Chaska, ensuring commercial growth. The exhibit helps folks understand the harsh physical labor a housewife endured, and all the inventive contraptions that were used in laundry, cooking, and cleaning. The designing women of Chaska’s history have left behind beautiful quilts, shawls, paintings, and thread work. Oh, and the clothes they wore! Dresses from different decades, the high-laced shoes, the mandatory hats and gloves that a respectable woman always wore before stepping outside.
