Museums & Tours
The Oconto County Historical Society maintains the historic Beyer Home & Carriage Museum, the Copper Culture Museum, and the Holt & Balcom Logging Camp Museum.
Booklets are available for a self-guided walking tour of Oconto’s Historic West Main Street District.
Our Museums
Beyer Home & Carriage Museum
Visit the Beyer Home built in 1868, preserved as it appeared in the late 1800s Queen Anne-style by the owners, George and Fannie Beyer, which includes antique furnishings of that era. Your tour also includes a visit to our large showroom complete with very rare antique vehicles, a walk down Old Oconto Main Street, a military history exhibit, an authentic log cabin, and more, all situated within an entire city block.
Copper Culture Museum
Visit the location where 6,000 years ago Native Americans returned to the mouth of the Oconto River to bury their loved ones. Their repeated use of this burial ground over a 1,000–year timespan is a historic phenomenon. The fact that they were also interred with copper tools and projectile points makes the Oconto Archaeological Site even more significant. They are believed to be only a small part of a larger population living around the upper three Great Lakes who are the earliest metalsmiths known to exist in the Western Hemisphere.
Holt & Balcom Logging Camp Museum
Relive a vital part of American history at the oldest logging camp still standing at its original site on the banks of the McCauslin Brook, near Lakewood, Wisconsin. The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp Museum stands today as a memorial to the White Pine logging era of Wisconsin. The camp was built in 1880 and was used for over 50 years.
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