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As part of the Muskoka Museum's Adopt an Artifact program, the following cabins and trains are available for sponsor adoption:
Ashworth Hall
Ashworth Hall is available for adoption
- Built: 1879
- Moved to MHP: 1985
- Original Location: Lot 19, Concession 8, Stisted Township, Ashworth
- History: Built by Henry Demaine for Stanley Ashworth. It has been a community hall, loyal orange lodge, school and cottage
School House
School House is available for adoption
- Built: 1895
- Moved to MHP: 1967
- Original Location: Lot 24, Concession 6, Stisted Township, Etwell
- History: Built by volunteer labour for $75.00. Stisted School Section #4 opened on Jan 1, 1896. Miss Carrie Hall taught 20 students
Spence Inn
Spence Inn is available for adoption
- Built: 1878
- Moved to MHP: 1977
- Original Location: Lot 88, Concession A, Spence
- History: Built 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.
Watson Workshop
Watson Workshop is available for adoption
- Built: c.1880
- Moved to MHP: 1966
- Original Location: Lot 16, Concession 13-14, Brunel Township
- History: Built 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
Boles Barn
Boles Barn is available for adoption
- Built: 1919
- Moved to MHP: 1972
- Original Location: Lot 8, Concession 2, Stisted Township, Aspdin
- History: Built by the Boles family for their farm. Barns were an important part of early life and barn-raising was a community event
Daniel Bray House
Daniel Bray House is available for adoption
- Built: 1868
- Moved to MHP: 1977
- Original Location: Lot 27, Concession 4, Stephenson Township, Martins Siding
- History: Built by Daniel Bray in 1868, the house grew around it until it was part of the summer kitchen
Wesley Methodist Church
Wesley Methodist Church is available for adoption
- Built: 1875
- Moved to MHP: 1975
- Original Location: Lot 27, Concession 11, Monck Township, Point Kaye
- History: Originally the Point Kaye Church at Milford Bay. Dedicated as a Wesley Methodist Church in 1876
Hill House
Hill House is available for adoption
- Built: 1874
- Moved to MHP: 1963
- Original Location: Lot 24, Concession 13, Franklin Township, Hillside
- History: Gothic or Ontario Vernacular style house replaced Reverend Hill’s log house in 1874. Highway 60 was the path Reverend Hill walked to Huntsville
Steam Locomotive #2
Steam Locomotive #2 is available for adoption
- Built: 1926
- Opened at MHP: 2000
- History: Built 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 tracked and stored as a spare
Algonquin Coach
Algonquin Coach is available for adoption
- Built: 1894
- Opened at MHP: 2000
- History: Built by the Toronto Railway Company, used on the Toronto Suburban Railway. Used on the Portage Railway 1921-1958
Blacksmith Shop
Blacksmith Shop is available for adoption
- Built:1880s
- Moved to MHP:1970
- Original Location: Lot 18, Concession 1, Perry Township, Novar
- History: 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
Maw House
Maw House is available for adoption
- Built:1890s
- Moved to MHP:1984
- Original Location: Lot 28, Concession 14, Chaffey Township, Novar
- History: Built by the Mills family in 1890s, 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 uses in the Out-of-Classroom Education program. Donated and moved to MHP in 1984
Hay’s General Store
Hay's General Store is available for adoption
- Built:1878
- Moved to MHP:1969
- Original Location: Lot 1, Concession 9, Monck Township, Falkenburg Junction
- History: Built at Falkenburg Junction at the cross roads 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
Hares House
Hares House is available for adoption
- Built: 1872
- Moved to MHP: 1964
- Original Location: Lot 32-33, Concession 12, Stephenson Township
- History: Second house built by Henry and Elizabeth Hares, first one burnt down. 14 children were raised in this house.
Darling House
Adopted! Thank you Platinum Sponsor, Mary Beth Robinson (May 27, 2019-2020)
- Built: 1869
- Moved to MHP: 1963
- Original Location: Lot 17, Concession 2, Stisted Township
- History: One of the first settlers in the area. Often used as a community meeting place. James and Hannah Darling raised 9 children here
