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Lantern Tours
Martha Barker Country Store Museum
Navarre Anderson Trading Post Complex

 

Lantern Tours

lantern tour   

The Navarre-Anderson Trading Post Lantern Tours are held each year towards the end of October. Monroe County's colorful history comes to life in the glow of lanterns, fires, and torches, as costumed guides conduct evening group tours of the Trading Post site. Costumed volunteers present scenarios about people and activities that occurred over 200 years ago in Frenchtown.

Information on ticket sales, dates, and reservations is available by calling the Monroe County Historical Museum at 734-240-7780 on or after October 1.

 

Martha Barker Country Store Museum
3815 North Custer Road

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 The Country Store Museum is housed in the old Papermill School building which got its name from the nearby Christopher McDowell Papermill.  This one-room schoolhouse was built in the 1860's and was used as a school until 1962. It is now used as a replica of a common country store of about 1918.  Exhibits are authentic, with artifacts donated by local families and businesses.

A limited number of items are still sold at this "store" to the delight of children (and their parents) who are avid customers of the "penny" candy and small souvenirs.   

 Open only for special events and group tours by appointment.
 Admission Free     Phone:  (734) 240-7780

 

Navarre Anderson Trading Post Complex
3775 North Custer Road

Trading Post


   
The Trading Post complex is set up to represent a French pioneer homestead along the River Raisin. The main building, built in 1789 by Utreau Navarre, is the oldest wooden residence still standing in the state.  It is the most complete example of French-Canadian "piece-sur-piece" construction in the Old Northwest.  It has been restored to 1797.  Other buildings include an 1810 cookhouse and a replica 1790's French-Canadian style barn.      


Visitors may walk the grounds at any time.

Open only for special events and group tours by appointment.            

Admission Free     Phone:  (734) 240-7780

The photos are from the Trading Post's Colonial Living History Weekend with Campeau Company, Colonial civilian and military reenactors.

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