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Solid Comfort: Tales of Tennessee
PORT COLBORNE HISTORICAL & MARINE MUSEUM AND HERITAGE VILLAGE Museum and Heritage Village, located at 280 King Street in downtown Port Colborne, features a century of heritage buildings in a landscaped setting of historic gardens, pathways, picket fences, and a covered pavilion with picnic tables and park benches. The 1869 Georgian-Revival style Williams Home serves as the main exhibit gallery, interpreting the history of Port Colborne and the Welland Canal through a variety of ever-changing exhibits. The Village includes a Log Schoolhouse, the Sherk-Troup Log Home, the F. W. Woods Blacksmith Shop, Arabella’s Tea Room and a Carriage House Gift Shop. The latest addition to the village, a timber frame cabin, houses the Graf Loom. The wheelhouse from the Yvon Dupre tugboat, the lifeboat from the S.S. Hochelaga and the Marine Exhibit Lighthouse form a small marine park within the Museum Village. Canada’s Century Car, the 1901 Neff Steam Buggy, built by Benton Neff in the Neff Foundry in Humberstone which is now part of Port Colborne, is on display in the Museum’s Heritage Resource Centre. Arabella’s Tea Room serves afternoon tea with hot homemade tea biscuits, in a 1915 Edwardian Cottage. Open daily from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., June to September. Christmas Pudding is served during the first week of December.
