Sanilac County Historic Village & Museum

Sanilac County Historic Village & Museum boasts 17 historic buildings and a WW2 military train car on a 10-acre campus. The country doctor’s 20-room Victorian mansion is the cornerstone of the historic village that includes the Platts' General Store circa 1900, the 157-year-old Huckins one-room schoolhouse, the 1883 Banner Pioneer Log Cabin, The Decker Log Barn, The Deckerville train depot, a Victorian church relocated from Forestville, a 1937 hunting cabin by a WW2 Navy Cross recipient, and what is probably the state’s last remaining historic Barn Theater. Extensive Victorian gardens are the envy of local horticulturists and the museum's important permanent exhibits include a marine shipwreck room, a separate dairy industry museum, along with old-time carriages, military and native American exhibits. Annual events include Victorian dinners, wine-tasting, school tours, craft fair, musical concerts, Bark Shanty Days, Halloween haunted village, the Christmas Lighted Trail, Agricultural/Farmer's Weekend, and participation in the Blue Water Antique Yard Sale Trail. The Loop-Harrison mansion, Victorian church, and Huckins Schoolhouse are available for rental for weddings, showers, meetings, funerals, lectures and personal parties.