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Newaygo County Museum
The Museum is currently Closed (2007) and the Society is working with Fremont Area Community Foundation, who will seek a countywide museum advisory committee.  At that time, the museum collection will come under the care of the committee.  The Society embraces this endeavor and as well as eagerly awaiting the outline for the building renovation.

The Newaygo County Museum, situated on the south bank of the Muskegon River, on West Water Street in downtown Newaygo, has a vast collection of historical artifacts and materials that tell the history of Newaygo County.

The museum itself occupies a very historic site from Newaygo’s past. The museum is housed in the old hydro-electric power house that was constructed in 1899-1900 to provide hydro-electric power for the Newaygo Portland Cement Company, and later used by Consumers Power. The museum moved into the empty power house in 1970. Before the power house was built there, the site was the location of the great sawmill known as the Big Red Mill, built in 1854 during the height of the lumbering era.