Martin County Historical Society

Online Tour - Pioneer Room

Modern day Martin County would surely be a different place today if the brave, hard-working pioneers who went before us never came and settled the land we now call home. Our Pioneer Room here at the museum is filled with the tools and items that those courageous forerunners used to make early Martin County their home. Currently the room features a bedroom area and a dining room/kitchen area that are both filled with interesting pioneer artifacts that range in origin from the late 19th century to the 1950s. In the bedroom we have such items as an 1895 rocking chair given as a wedding gift to Rev. & Mrs. Albert Fillmore of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church and an 1865 cradle from Silas Mills, the first settler of Waverly Township. There is also a picture of Sam Carver (from the Tuttle-Carver dispute) and his wife. In the dining/kitchen area we have things like an 1880s Cast Iron stove, the predecessor to the refrigerator-the Icebox, a 1920s electric toaster, a kitchen cupboard set with built in flour sifter ,and a hand powered vacuum. These are just a FEW examples of what we have in our Pioneer Room; come and glimpse what life was like before the Modern Age!