Heritage Village at Mackinaw

Heritage Village at Mackinaw Mackinaw City's Heritage Village lets visitors explore life in the Straits of Mackinac as it was in t

Our village now includes:

• An 1880's one-room school from the community of Freedom, a few miles east of Mackinaw City
• The Mackinaw City pest (pestilence) house from the same era as the school house
•The sawmill that cut the logs for the locks at Sault Ste. Marie right after the turn of the century
• A tarpaper work shack
• A vintage base ball field (yes, it was two words back then)
• An artifa

cts building
• A community garden
• A community pavilion
• Modern outhouses

An 1897 church from Brutus, a machine shed, a replication of a prominent family's farm, the Stimpson Homestead, are on site and slated for completion in the near future. Educational programs are in place or are being developed to bring each to life. Our most treasured objective is to educate children through exciting interpretation, participation, and enthusiastic retelling of the history of that time. In a typical year hundreds of school children visit Heritage Village. We invite teachers to bring their students to our Village to "really see what Great Grandma Smith meant about no lights, no cars, no planes, no telephones when she was a girl." High school and college students, home for the summer, fall in love with base ball using 1870's rules when gentlemanliness was the standard and an umpire could simply ask, "Were you safe or out?" and a "ballist' (player) would respond honestly, much to the delight of the "cranks" (fans).

06/14/2026
06/14/2026

Buildings are open. 12-4 today. List mist. No problem. Sadly no music today.

06/14/2026

On this day in 1777 our flag was adopted by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. We remember this each year by commemorating Flag Day. This is a poster from the 140th Flag Day in 1917. Honor. Respect. Remember.

Happy Flag Day. Our buildings will be open 12-4 today!
06/14/2026

Happy Flag Day. Our buildings will be open 12-4 today!

Thanks for the visit and the photos!
06/13/2026

Thanks for the visit and the photos!

That’s a wrap! Thank you to the all the volunteers and visitors.
06/13/2026

That’s a wrap! Thank you to the all the volunteers and visitors.

06/13/2026
06/13/2026

Come out and listen to Gabe and see tractors.

06/13/2026

Tractors are here at least 15 to 20 or sit around the buildings at Heritage Village. It looks wonderful. Come on out.

Address

1425 W Central Avenue
Mackinaw City, MI
49701

Telephone

+12319770045

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