Marshall County Museum Historic Crossroads Center

10/22/2026

Congratulations to our team for winning first place! 🏆

10/22/2026

10/21/2026

Step into Marshall County's past on a guided ghost walk through real Marshall County history. Our storytellers lead you through our Museum which has been transformed for a spooky evening, sharing documented events, local legends and tales drawn from our collections. Get to see our basement and all that it holds!

Tickets available now online and at the Museum. .
🔗: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/haunted-history-a-ghost-walk

This ghost walk supports the Marshall County Historical Society & Museum’s work to collect, preserve, and interpret our community’s history for residents and visitors. Your registration helps care for more than 20,000 artifacts and keeps these stories available for future generations.

10/19/2026

There's only 11 days until Haunted History: A Ghost Walk! We will explore the eerie Museum, including the basement where shadows lurk. There will be plenty of frightening Marshall County history, some which occurred right where you'll stand. Grab your tickets now and join us October 30 at 7 PM!

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/haunted-history-a-ghost-walk

Image: Cast of the 2019 ghost walk

10/17/2026

Our model trains are running today from 11-1! Visit us and win a prize if you can find all of the hidden spooky figures 🎃

10/16/2026

Mark Kurtz shared his photographs from the Vietnam War with us at our Brown Bag event last Friday. The crowd enjoyed the stories that accompanied the photos! Thank you to Mark and everyone that joined us!

Did you miss the latest Brown Bag Lunch & Lecture? No worries! Watch it back now on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/yD8tvJToTg8

10/16/2026

Did you miss the latest Brown Bag Lunch & Lecture? No worries! Watch it back now on our YouTube channel.

Mark Kurtz served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, where he...

10/15/2026

Our Ghost Walk features phenomenal special effects makeup artists who bring the spooky to life. 🎭 So good, we can’t reveal their magic here! Are you brave enough to witness their art in person? Join us if you dare! We'll be here October 30 at 7:00 p.m. sharp waiting for you.

Tickets are going fast. Get yours now in person or online at the link below.
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/haunted-history-a-ghost-walk

10/15/2026

❄️ BRRRR! On October 11, 1906, Marshall County was covered in snow as shown in these photos from our collection. Read the column below from the Bremen Enquirer on Thursday, October 11, 1906, page 5. How would you feel if you woke up to snow falling tomorrow? Let us know!

"A Foot of Snow in October!

Old Boreas dealt us a body blow yesterday in the shape of a snow storm without any preliminary sparring in the way of frosts. The citizens were astonished on arising to find about three inches of snow had fallen during the night and continued during a large part of the day. The fluffy masses of white upon the green foliage of the trees, not yet touched by Jack Frost, made a pretty picture. The temperature was two degrees below freezing at daylight. The snow continued all day and far into the night, the total fall being at least twelve inches, and this morning the freeze was quite severe. The branches of many trees were broken by the masses of clinging snow. A great many people had not picked their apples, and today the trees are laden with the fruit frozen solid. Snow flurries in October are not unusual, but the magnitude of this storm is such as to silence the "oldest inhabitant," who generally bobs up with a tale of something just a little worse that happened years and years ago. It also arouses apprehension in the minds of many over the prospect of an exceptionally severe winter."

10/14/2026

Moving the Tyner Depot, 1907

1. The first photo was taken in Walkerton when the depot was loaded onto a flat car.
2. The second photo is the depot in Tyner after it was moved and put in use.
3. The third photo is the same building now repurposed as a home. The building was moved northeast on French street for the Sarber family.

📰 Newspaper excerpts reporting the move from Walkerton:
"The L. E. & W. (Lake Erie & Western) passenger depot at Laporte is to be taken down and rebuilt at this place. It is much larger than the building now in use here, which has long been inadequate for the Lake Erie’s business in Walkerton. The old depot here will be moved to Tyner and the work of tearing down the same will probably be begun next Monday"
- Walkerton Independent. Weekly Republican 11 April 1907

"The offices of the L. E. & W. depot moved into their new rooms Tuesday. The old depot will be moved to Tyner, Ind."
- South Bend Tribune 16 May 1907 Pg. 16, Thursday.

"The old L. E. & W. depot was moved to Tyner Sunday on a flat car. The building weighs about 60,000 pounds."
- Walkerton Independent 24 May 1907