Bad Axe Historical Society

05/23/2026

We will be open tomorrow, Sunday May 24th, from 2-4 pm for the summer season. Stop by and check out both our locations: Bad Axe Museum of Local History - 303 N. Port Crescent St & Log Cabin Village - 205 S. Hanselman St. We look forward to having you as our guest!
This Memorial Day Weekend - We want to thank those that made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the military. Thinking of them and their families. Thinking of Memorial Day and Memories, take a stroll down our engraved brick pavers to see names of people and businesses from our areas past and present. Located at the Bad Axe Museum of Local History.
We have been busy and have a lot planned for this year. One thing is a new display panel rack showing local history at our Bad Axe Museum of Local History. Like, follow and share us to keep updated on what is happening!

05/08/2026

Bad Axe Historical Society made the list. We want to thank all our wonderful volunteers and gracious donors that help us to be the unique and special place that we are. 🫶👏 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122135355195131217&set=a.122108330211131217

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04/24/2026

TBT - Interesting Newspaper article from 1987 about a wedding dress display at the Bad Axe Historical Society showing dresses spanning 100 years - from 1861 - 1962. This display was at their old location which was on the second floor of the old Bad Axe City Hall, which is now torn down.
On a side note, I recognize one of the phone numbers at the end of the article, My grandmothers - Fern Copeland 269-6506 who was a past president. Anyone know who was 269-8165.

03/05/2026

TBT - 1937 photo of well-known local people of the day:
Wm. Schwalm, Nellie Allen, Bertha Plowe, Mable Collins, Mr. Pangborn (anyone know the first name?).
The picture is of them next to the First United Methodist Church of Bad Axe. The old Presbyterian Church is in the background on the far-right side.
FYI Nellie Allen was the wife of Wally Allen and mother of Thelma Allen. Thelma donated their family home and it is our Bad Axe Museum of Local History located at 303 N. Port Crescent St. in Bad Axe.

12/16/2025

12/16/2025

Need a GREAT last minute gift idea? You can buy a unique gift for someone AND support a local nonprofit at the same time.
Books make great gifts for hard to buy for parents or grandparents. T-shirts are great for kids and adults - sizes sm - 2xl instock.
Please click the link to see all of our Merchandise which includes many Bad Axe and Huron County items!
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Engraved Bricks are available and make a unique gift starting at $30. They are great gifts in remembrance of someone or to honor someone or for a business. See our link for more details on the Engraved Bricks.
http://www.thehchs.org/badaxe/bricks.pdf
Call Robin and he can meet you or arrange shipping on order of $25 or more. 989-975-244Seven.
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12/16/2025

Bad Axe Items, Bad Axe Historical Items and Huron County Historical Items for Sale. They Make Great Gifts. Purchase them at our Log Cabin Village Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day on Sundays from 12-4pm.
We can also ship with a $20 minimum order. Let us know what you would like and your shipping zip code.

12/08/2025

Great turnout of people interested in our local history. The program was on the fires of 1871 & 1881 that decimated our area. Many members of local Historical Societies and members of the public were present. If you are interested in local history, please reach out to your local historical society to see how you can participate or help them out! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DeF1svdo5/

11/29/2025

We would like to invite you to the Bad Axe Historical Society Log Cabin Village TODAY Nov 29th from 1-5 pm during the Bad Axe Chamber of Commerce Tidings & Tinsel Festivities! See the Log Village decorated for Christmas, for story book readings, Christmas music, singalong, games, toy search, cut outs / photo ops and some treats for the Children.

While you are there, check out our new Cedar Shake Roof on the Ullrich Log Home thanks to the generous donations of our members, residents, businesses, grants... Your generosity allows us to continue to keep our buildings maintained and allow the public to see all that we have to offer.

We are located across from the Bad Axe Public Library - 205 S. Hanselman St. - in the downtown park.

11/13/2025

We would like to thank the group 100 Women Who Care - Huron County Chapter for their generous donation! They donated $5100 to our Ullrich Log Home Roof Replacement Project. This was the largest project that we have done to date and we really appreciate their donation as well as everyone else’s donations, large or small.

Their group was so wonderful to work with. I am so impressed that we have a group of such caring women in our community that want to do great things for our county. This is a great organization and I would encourage any women out there that would like to be a part of this group of caring individuals to please contact them. If you have limited free time, this is a great group for you. They only meet 4 times a year for about ½ to 1 hour and if you can’t make the meetings, that is OK too. If there are any other charities or non-profit groups out there that would be interested in applying for their worthy project, please reach out to them. You can contact Joanne Schulte at 989-551-7787.

Pictured are L to R Stacie Schweitzer (100 Women Who Care), Robin Zurek (Bad Axe Historical Society), Connie Respondek (BAHS) and Rosemary Stuehmer (100WWC).

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