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Oceana Historical Park
Museum Complex
5809 Fox Road, Mears Michigan
June, July & August
Open Weekends 1pm-4pm
In The Park
Swift
Lathers Museum
(Pictured above)
Built in 1893. Currently furnished as when the Lathers
lived there from 1935 to 1970. Some Art & Crafts
features are the bookcase dividers in the living room, the
beautiful carved glass doors, stenciled crown moldings and
dark woodwork all original to the home.
Home of the Mearz News - "The World's Smallest Newz
Paper"
Tool Museum
Farm Tools, Logging Equipment, Dairy Machinery and an Inside
3-holer
Boynton
Cottage Museum
Built in 1909 by Rev. Malbourne Boynton
Moved from the lakeshore in 1982
Robinson
Museum
Old time laundry, Dentist's
Office, Doctor's Office, Post Office and changing exhibits
Transportation
Museum
From horse and buggy to the present
Boats, farm trucks, tractors, horse drawn transportation,
trains and a depot, dune buggies and much more.
Includes a 12' x 40' mural of transportation in Oceana
County
Swedish
Church
Built the spring of 1898 -
Dedicated June 1898
This charming country
church was acquired in 1985 from the disbanding congregation
of the local Swedish Mission Covenant Church. The
church seats 80-100 people and is available for small
weddings, reunions, anniversary celebrations, club and other
meetings.
Charter Members were
Mr & Mrs Lars Haggquist, Mr & Mrs Peter Johnson, Mr
& Mrs Lars Jenson,
Mr & Mrs Hans Larson, Mr & Mrs Magnus Peterson, Mr
& Mrs Peter Anderson,
Mr & Mrs Fred Peterson, Mr & Mrs Hon Lind, and Mrs
Alfred Pearson.
AND
Old Town
Hall
at 5698 Fox Road
(just one block east of the park)
Home of our Country School Room
New Exhibits each Summer!
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