--  Local doctors of the 19th and 20th centuries-- From frontier physicians who battled malaria and rode on horeseback to their house calls to the Three Oaks doctor who invented several patent medicines to the New Buffalo physician who spent weeks of every year caring for the destitute people of Haiti to the Galien doctor who used hypnosis to help patient lose weight and quit smoking--  this exhibit focuses on the fascinating intersection of history and medicine.

 

--  A World War II-era kitchen that highlights how the great war was fought on the domestic front as well as the battlefield. Relive the age of scrap drives and coupon rationing, when the country was united in the effort to defeat totalitarianism.

 

--  Sawmills and grain mills were among the earliest efforts to area pioneers to harness power not provided by humans or animals. Water wheels and steam boilers gave early farmers a market for the trees they were clearing to create farm fields, and allowed them to move past mere subsistence agriculture to cash crops. This exhibit was created with the help of Pears Mill in Buchanan.

 

--  Decades before the Berrien County Youth Fair was created, Three Oaks hosted the county's big celebration of the agricultural way of life. The Three Oaks Community Fair took place in the 1910s through the 1930s on lands owned by the Featherbone Company just west of Three Oaks. The fairground included a horse-racing oval and grandstands, which you can see in aerial photographs that are part of this display.

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--  In the1980s, eights towns in our area began working together to attract visitors under the banner of the Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce. It worked well-- by the 1990s, travel articles began using the Harbor Country name when extolling the charms of the area, and the tourism economy and second-home market flourished,

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If you have any artifacts, photos, or information about these topics, let us know! You can email details at trotommuseum@gmail.com.

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