Heritage Village hosts school groups in the spring and the fall.

We offer a half day programs during which costumed docents interpret our facilities. Starting at our one room school house, Freedom School, set in the late 1800’s in Mackinaw City, children learn about spelling bees, and elocution lessons, they sit at school house desks and experience what it would have been like to have several grades in one room.

Children from the 1-room school house form small groups and then take a tour of the entire village including a Victory Garden, a tool shed, a log house, our replica of a Mackinaw City homestead, an icehouse, an 1880’s chapel, a train station, a general store, a sawmill used to cut the timbers for the Soo Locks, a pesthouse, an our Anishinaabe area, complete with a plank house, farm fields, and a medicine wheel.

Children, teachers and parents experience the years of great change, 1880 - 1917. What might it have been like to live without electricity, hospitals, or online stores?

*Our buildings are not heated, but we do have modern outhouses with a hand washing station. We have a covered eating area where electricity can be provided.

Cost for the program is $5 per student; chaperones visit free. Fifty percent of the cost must be submitted with the application.