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• Built: 1879 by Henry Demaine for Stanley Ashworth
  • It has been a community hall, loyal orange lodge, school and cottage
• Moved to MHP: 1985
• Original location: Lot 19, Concession 8, Stisted Township, Ashworth

Thank you Diamond sponsors: Descendants of the Halls & Robinsons

• Built: 1895 by volunteer labour for $75.00
  • Stisted School Section #4 opened on January 1, 1896. Miss Carrie Hall taught 20 students
• Moved to MHP: 1967
• Original location: Lot 24, Concession 6, Stisted Township, Etwell

• Built: 1878 by, or for, Levitt Simpson in the village of Spence at the junction of Ryerson Road and the Nipissing Road.
  • Run as a temperance boarding house and served as a stop for the cadge team drivers bringing mail from Rosseau to Commanda, where they could change their horses and rest. Visitors were transient workers, immigrants, and travellers.
• Moved to MHP: 1977
• Original location: Lot 88, Concession A, Spence

• Built: c.1880 between 1876 and 1886 by Julius Shay
  • Sold to Ned Fowler in 1887, then to Charles Watson in 1931. A portion of the Watson property was sold at half its value to be used at a Pioneer Village in 1961 and the building was moved in 1966
• Moved to MHP: 1966
• Original location: Lot 16, Concession 13-14, Brunel Township

• Built: 1919 by the Boles family for their farm
  • Barns were an important part of early life and barn-raising was a community event
• Moved to MHP: 1972
• Original location: Lot 8, Concession 2, Stisted Township, Aspdin

• Built: 1868 by Daniel Bray, the house grew around it until it was part of the summer kitchen
• Moved to MHP: 1977
• Original location: Lot 27, Concession 4, Stephenson Township, Martins Siding

• Built: 1875
  • Originally the Point Kaye Church at Milford Bay. Dedicated as a Wesley Methodist Church in 1876
• Moved to MHP: 1975
• Original location: Lot 27, Concession 11, Monck Township, Point Kaye

• Built: 1874
  • Gothic or Ontario Vernacular style house replaced Reverend Hill’s log house in 1874. Highway 60 was the path Reverend Hill walked to Huntsville
• Moved to MHP: 1963
• Original location: Lot 24, Concession 13, Franklin Township, Hillside

• Built: 1926 for the Canadian Gypsum Company, Windsor Nova Scotia.
  • Montreal Locomotive Works No. 67167, 21 ton, 0-4-0 tank engine with 10” x 16” cylinders. Purchased by the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway in 1948. This locomotive was too heavy for the tracks and stored as a spare.
• Opened at MHP: 2000

Help celebrate Steam Locomotive #2's birthday in 2026!

• Built: 1894 by the Toronto Railway Company, used on the Toronto Suburban Railway. Used on the Portage Railway 1921-1958
• Opened at MHP: 2000

• Built:1880s
  • Purchased from Edward Hainsworth by Frank Gabriel Sr. in 1926. The Gabriel family lived in this building and Frank had a separate blacksmith shop on the property. Donated by the family to be the blacksmith shop in honour of Frank’s passion for blacksmithing
• Moved to MHP:1970
• Original location: Lot 18, Concession 1, Perry Township, Novar

Thank you Diamond sponsor: Gene Maw

• Built: 1890s
  • Built by the Mills family, eventually sold to Nawton and Minnie Maw in 1932.
  • First donated to the Muskoka Board of Education in 1970, dismantled and rebuilt by Huntsville High School Students and used in the Out-of-Classroom Education program. 
• Moved to MHP:1984
• Original location: Lot 28, Concession 14, Chaffey Township, Novar

• Built: 1878 at Falkenburg Junction at the crossroads of Muskoka and Parry Sound Roads by Edward (Ned) Hay.
  • Operated by his wife Emma and daughter Helen after his death in 1928. Purchased by Frank Moore in 1931 and operated until 1953
• Moved to MHP:1969
• Original location: Lot 1, Concession 9, Monck Township, Falkenburg Junction

• Built: 1872 as the second house built by Henry and Elizabeth Hares – first one burnt down. 14 children were raised in this house.
• Moved to MHP: 1964
• Original location: Lot 32-33, Concession 12, Stephenson Township

In memory of Roger Dray (1934-2025), the family genealogist, and great grandson of James and Hannah Darling, Platinum sponsors, the American Darlings (March 1, 2025 - 2026)

Thank you Platinum sponsor, Mary Beth Robinson (March 16, 2024-2025)

• Built: 1869
  • One of the first settlers in the area. Often used as a community meeting place. James and Hannah Darling raised 9 children here.
• Moved to MHP: 1963
• Original location: Lot 17, Concession 2, Stisted Township