Customized Tours and Programs
We'll provide tailor-made tours and programs for groups of children. Call us to design a program to meet your needs. Or, you can schedule one of the programs described below at your place or ours. Call Darlene Jackson 269-683-8545x106
Local History Programs
Step Back in Time to 1875 at Ferry Street School
Learn the "Duties of a Pupil". Read from McGuffey's Readers, take home an assignment in arithmetic and find out more about life in 1875. Teacher Belle Palmer, in costume, will be your guide.
Seas, Ice and Giant Beavers.
Prehistoric Niles will be explored with hands-on fossils and take home coloring pages of some of the wild life that roamed Michigan.
The Underground Railroad.
View the video " Follow the Drinking Gourd" and learn about the Underground Railroad routes that went through Niles.
Madam Chevalier at Fort St. Joseph
Madam Chevalier unfolds her story as a trader's wife at Fort St. Joseph. Because she is half French and half Miami Indian, her life covers many of the colonial experiences in Niles.


