Monroe County Historical Society

1938 – Society forms; quartered in Sawyer Homestead

 

 

1939 – Historic Trails Committee formed by JS Gray

 

1948 – Purchase of Eby Log Cabin

 

1955 – Custer Monument moved to Monroe Street

              33 markers placed by Trails Committee

 

1956 – Bridge School acquired from Dundee Board of Education

 

1959 – St. Antoine Park developed

 

1960 – Eby Cabin placed on County fairgrounds

 

1961 – Cabin shown to 20,000 Fair visitors

 

1962 – Museum opens year-round

 

1966 – Monroe County Historical Commission created to operate Museums

 

1967 – First full-time Museum Director

 

1969 – Country Store Exhibit opened in Papermill School Building

 

1971 – Gift of Navarre-Anderson Trading Post

 

1972 – Monroe Post Office Building acquired

 

1973 – New Museum building dedicated during Michigan Week

 

1974 – Architectural Survey of County completed

 

1976 – Archaeological studies at River Raisin Battlefield begin

 

1977 – Phinney Building moved

 

1982 – Navarre-Morris Cabin moved to Trading Post site

 

1983 – Enlarged Custer Exhibit completed

 

1984 – Navarre-Anderson Trading Post opened

 

1986 – River Raisin Battlefield site acquired

 

1988 – Country Store porch removal and improvements

 

1989 – Trading Post Barn constructed