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Bernard Hospital
Brown
School
Nature
Trail
Country
Store
Herb
& Flower Gardens
Seamstress
Cottage
The
Little House
Blacksmith
Shop
Implement
Building
Windmill
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Buildings and Grounds
Descriptions
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Bernard
Hospital
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The Bernard Hospital was built in the early 1930's.
Dr. Bernard operated this hospital in which over 400 babies were born until he left to be a medical officer in WWII. |
After returning from the military service, Dr. Bernard used the building as a medical center and clinic until he retired in
1956. In 1962, the building was converted into the present museum. Over
25,000 artifacts are on display in this and the other
buildings.
In 1970 a two story wing was added and was rapidly filled with artifacts. The rooms of the hospital have been decorated as they might have been in the late 1800's or
early 1900's. The wing contains many articles of clothing, a toy collection, stone and sea shell collections, telephone switch boards, and an Indian dug out taken from Wall Lake.
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The
Brown School
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The Brown School, or the North Pine Lake School, was located on the corner
of Pine Lake and Lindsey Roads. It was constructed in 1873 and used as a one room school,
as well as a community center. It was moved to the museum grounds in 1963, where it houses many artifacts dealing with school life.
The back room of the Brown School has been converted from a storage room into a youth display room. |
This project was the Eagle Project of Ben Bever from
BSA Troop 108.
Ben supervised cleaning, painting, and putting up displays. He also put in
a handicap ramp so that the school is now handicap
accessible.
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Nature
Trail
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The Nature Trail was another Eagle Project. Chris Frohlich of
BSA Troop 108 supervised the clearing of a path and covering the path with wood chips. The Nature Trail is located just off the Parking Lot. If you are quiet, you can see squirrels and chipmunks playing, wild flowers in season,
and experience the peace of nature's
beauty.
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Country
Store
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The Country Store was built in
1968. It is a replica of an 1880's store and is
furnished with groceries, household goods and all most
anything else one would need to survive at that
time.
The Bowen Mills 1910 Post Office is
also located in this building. |
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Herb
& Flower Gardens |
The herb and flower gardens were started by the Country Kids 4-H Club as a service to the area. The flower garden started as a wild flower display but has now been turned in to a perennial garden.
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Seamstress
Cottage |
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The Seamstress Cottage was built in the 1870's and was donated to the Bernard Historical Museum by Mr. & Mrs. Karl
Palmatier. It was used as a tenant house, moved to the Palmatier home site and use as a storage building. |
Mrs. Palmatier played in this building as a child. Because of the deterioration of the building, much renovation was needed. It is now furnished with artifacts related to the life of a dress maker in the late 1880's including rope beds, quilting frames, feed
bag material, patterns, and sewing machines.
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The
Little House |
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The Little House was built in the late 1930's for the purpose of housing
young doctors that helped Dr. Bernard from 1939 to 1942.
Dr. Bernard went into the armed service and upon returning,
The Little house became the home of three |
doctors at separate times (1945-1956). The building was used for storage for several years. We have now opened The Little House for display. A sewing machine room, an early communications area, books, shoes, and a country kitchen can be seen at this time.
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Blacksmith
Shop |
The Blacksmith Shop was built in 1969 as a replica of those used in the late 1880's and early 1900's. It contains a forge, tools used by the Smithy, horse shoes and many other artifacts.
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Implement
Building |
The Implement Building ( often called The Barn), was built in 1991.
It contains farm equipment from early Michigan, two WWII Jeeps, a railroad mail cart or wagon, an old gas pump, a license plate collection, several old lawn |
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mowers, an incubator, milk separators, scales, hay forks and other artifacts dealing with farming.
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Windmill |
| The working Windmill was erected 1993 an an Eagle Project by Max
Boehm. Max planned and worked on the project along with members of
BSA Troop 50. This was the long dreamed of project of Dr. Bernard, Wilbur Solomon, and Clare Richards. |
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The windmill was donated by Dr.
Light and is dedicated to Wilbur Solomon.
When the wind is blowing in the right direction, the windmill pumps a cool, fresh stream of water for workers and visitors to our museum.
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