Port Hope Area Historical Society

The Port Hope Area Historical Society owns and operates the Lumberyard Museum of the Thumb, in Port Hope, MI. It is open select weekends through the summer. The Lumberyard Museum is in wooden building 150-feet long and 30 feet at the peak, built in the 1930s. It was a privately owned lumberyard until its closure in the early 2000s. The Lumberyard Museum has an array displays, including: a vintage kitchen and bedroom; a hand-made, one-person aircraft; a unique diorama of downtown Port Hope through the years; a milking parlor; restored buggies and a sleigh; a garage area; and a display wall about the great Thumb fires of 1871 and 1881.

The society collaborates with the Friends of the Port Hope Depot. The Friends operate the restored 1904 Pere Marquette Train Depot and Caboose. The Depot is a half-block from the Lumberyard, and within site of the historic Port Hope Chimney -- the state's last remaining such remnant of the lumbering industry. 

The east portion of Portland Avenue off M-25 in downtown Port Hope comprises Historic Port Hope. Go to historicporthope.org for additional information, an online walking tour of the village, and summer hours.