West Bend, Wi – Visit Heritage House, Cedar Community’s restored turn-of-the-century farmhouse, located at their main campus, 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, on Saturday, Oct. 18 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for an open house.
Tour Heritage House and Ye Olde School, enjoy complimentary desserts and refreshments, along with fall color rides throughout thE beautiful trails (weather permitting).
Heritage House is the former homestead of Cedar Community’s original benefactor, William Koehl, and was built in 1865.
Visitors relive history, playing an 1884 pump organ in the parlor, learning about pumping cistern water, using homemade soap to hand-wash and line-dry laundry, listen to a crank telephone and work a Victrola.
Ye Olde School is a fully restored one-room schoolhouse bringing the experience of 1920s school days. The one-room school was built in 1917 to replace the 1870 old log framed school in the same location.
This school building served the community from 1917 to 1955 until the bigger two-room school was built next door and took over the name Oak Knoll School. The one-room school was then used for storage and fell into disrepair until it was restored in 1982 by Cedar Community to become “Ye Olde School” as we know it today.
This event is open to the public and free to attend. Free-will donations are happily accepted. For more information about this special event, please call 262.306.4218.