The Wellington Farm USA Museum in itself is an artifact. The building was built in the 1930’s by the CCC’s as the first building for the Higgins Lake Nursery. At that time, it was the cook shack for the nursery. Later it was moved to a new location and was used as a storage building for the Michigan Conservation Training School. In 2007 it was moved to Wellington Farm to save it from destruction.
Inside the Museum are three major displays. One is a historical presentation of the plows used on small farms in the Midwest during the early 1900’s. Artifacts include walking plows, sulky plows, the first plow to be mounted on a tractor and a huge ‘sod buster’ plow, the very one that was used to break the first fields of the Porter Ranch in Missaukee County. Other displays include a gallery of Depression Era Cartoons and a mock-up of the Wellington Mich. Post Office, complete with artifacts on loan from the U.S. Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.
Throughout the museum are other interesting tools including ice harvesting tools and fishing equipment used by area farmers during the Great Depression.
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