Pie Social
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Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
PIE SOCIAL
Step into the Past with a Pie Baking Contest, Pie Sale, Music on the Front Lawn, Tours of the Washburn Mansion and the One-Room Schoolhouse
Saturday | September 7, 2019 | 1pm to 4pm
Step back into the post-Civil War era against a backdrop of rolling fields and woodlands at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore. History and music will fill the autumn air along with the delicious aroma of fresh-baked homemade pies during this 9th annual fundraiser for Norlands. Whole pies will be for sale for $13 while slices are served up with real whipped cream for a donation. All proceeds benefit the Norlands educational programs.
Pie Baking Contest - Adult and junior bakers can enter pies and have the chance to win fun and fabulous Norlands’ inspired prizes. Download the contest rules and entry form here.
Bakers also have a chance for a special “Gold Medal” prize if they make the crust using Gold Medal Flour. The Norlands is the ancestral home of the founder of Gold Medal Flour. Born in Livermore in 1818, Cadwallader Colden Washburn moved west and, at the age of 48, built a flour mill on St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1880 he entered several types of flours in the International Millers’ Exhibition in Cincinnati and his flours won the bronze, silver, and gold medal prizes. He then changed the name and started the Gold Medal brand.
Visitors to the Pie Social will hear more about Cadwallader during a tour of the Washburn family home. Guided tours are available all afternoon. Learn about the remarkable Washburn family of Livermore that produced, in one generation: four Congressmen from four different states and three in Congress serving together at one time; two Governors from two different states; one army general; one Captain in the Navy; one Secretary of State; one United States Senator; two Foreign Ministers; one founder of Gold Medal Flour which became General Mills and one founder of another flour company that became part of Pillsbury; one founder of the Soo Railroad; one banker; and three published authors. After growing up in poverty, the seven Washburn brothers went on to become leaders in business and industry, political affairs and international diplomacy.
The 1853 one-room schoolhouse, similar to the one where all of the Washburns attended school, is just a short walk down the road and will also be open all afternoon.