We preserve and promote the heritage of Edgerton as expressed in the literary efforts of native author Sterling North. We maintain the Sterling North Home and Museum at 409 W. Rollin Street in Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Sterling North (1906–1974) grew up in this house on Rollin Street, built in 1894 by his grandfather Thomas North. It was here, in 1918, that eleven-year-old Sterling raised a baby raccoon named Rascal — the true story he told in his best-selling memoir Rascal (1963), later a Disney film and a beloved Japanese animated series.
When the Sterling North Society formed in 1989, the home was a run-down two-apartment building. The Society purchased it in 1992, and volunteers gave more than 12,000 hours restoring it to the way it looked when Sterling and Rascal lived here. The museum opened to the public on August 3, 1997, and today welcomes school groups, families, and visitors from around the world.
Read Sterling’s story · See the home through time
In the news: The Sterling North Museum was featured in an October 2025 Matador Network travel article, “Where to Play, Eat, and Stay on a Fall Trip to Janesville, WI.”
