**Fall Hours: Monday - Saturday 10:00am -4:00pm / Sunday Noon-4:00pm** The Cornish Pump is the largest steam-driven pumping engine built in the USA. It is a National and Michigan Historic Site. The Cornish Pump also displays a large collection of underground mining equipment and contains the Museum Gift Shop. Two blocks west of US-2 on Kent Street. The museum's focal point is a 725 steeple compound condensing engine. Rising 54' from the engine room floor and documented as the Nation's largest engine capable of pumping 4.5 million gallons daily.
Interactive Learning, Leadership Development, Parents Meeting Parents, Family Fun, Education Series and Community Leader Meetings
The IXL Historical Museum is a historic office building, residence, and museum complex in Hermansville, Michigan, United States The rich history of Hermansville is truly preserved by one of its greatest treasures.....the IXL Historical Museum. The building, once the office of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company, stands essentially as it was built in 1881-82. The Museum is home to countless items from Hermansville's lumbering and hardwood flooring era IXL is derived from the working "I excel", a mark of the superiority of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company products. It was built in 1881, a richly preserved memorial of the great timber era. Enjoy office equipment, furniture, and tools, elegant furnishing, ceiling Fresco, machinery, and flooring samples. Open: Memorial Day thru Labor Day, 12:30 p.m.-4 p.m. CT. Special groups by appointment.
Memorial Day thru late September --- Fri, Sat, Sun 1- 4 pm Just west of Norway, near the train overpass and Norway Spring. The museum is set up like a little town, with a grocery store, clothing store, dentist office, hardware store, jail, ice cream & creamery, funeral home, school and church. There are special displays set up in the middle of the museum, and there is a great genealogy area. The public is invited to tour the museum and research their family trees.
A sports hall of fame to honor men and women from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
During World War II, the Ford Motor Co., in Kingsford, built more of the engineless gliders than any other company. The World War II Glider and Military Museum features the 8th totally restored CG 4A Glider in the World!! This impressive museum holds unique collections of military uniforms from the Civil War through Iraq-Afghanistan. Other memorabilia includes fantastic displays of WWII photographs, German artifacts, 1930’s rare Model AA Ford Dump Truck, Model A Ford Tudor and the “Heiserman”, ¾ size Piper Cub replica used extensively in WWII, exciting WWII footage and personal stories of glider riders, Wall of Military and General Plaques honoring those who served along with the names of donors and more. Restoration of the glider, and the idea for a Glider Museum , began when the Historical Foundation received a deteriorated fuselage frame. The glider was originally owned by Olaf and Beatrice Blomquist of Iron Mountain who purchased it for $75 sometime after the war ended from the Ford Plant in Kingsford when surplus gliders were offered for sale. The Blomquist’s, in turn, sold it to their nephew, Vernon (Janie) Anderson of Metropolitan where it was used as a play house and hunting camp. The prized artifact was much later donated in 2005 by the Anderson ’s to the Historical Foundation. Interest generated enough funds to make the restoration possible and a suitable museum was then built to house the plane. The WWII Glider and Military Museum opened in July, 2011. Open Monday - Saturday 9 am - 5 pm. Sunday 12-4. Call ahead for more information and pricing.