Visit Heritage House Museum at Cedar Community, 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, on Sunday, May 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. for “A Taste of the Early 1900s.” Come and enjoy tours of Heritage House Museum and sample foods and desserts mad using recipes from the early 1900s. The event is free and open to the public.
Set on Cedar Community’s 245-acre Cedar Lake campus above Big Cedar Lake, Heritage House Museum 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.
Heritage House Museum hosts public events such as ice cream socials, re-enactments, holiday open houses, demonstrations, tastings and speakers.