Museum Blog - OCTOBER 2019
The United Counties Museum in the Wood House opened on September 15th 1956. The Howard Smith Paper Mill had previously taken over the property at 731 Second Street West and converted most of it into employee parking. Realizing the need for a community museum, the mill offered the the house to the newly re-organized SD&G Historical Society.
In 2000 when the United Counties Museum in the Wood House was relocated to it’s current location in Lamoureux Park and the collection was consolidated with the Inverarden Regency Cottage Museum, it became the Cornwall Community Museum.
A new cornerstone was laid, proudly announcing to all that this Museum is dedicated to the entire community of Cornwall. As such, the Museum contains several theme areas, systematically structured and sequenced to broadly represent large demographic groupings of the historic local citizenry. It is our desire that everyone who participates in one of our guided tours of the Museum will come away with a greater sense of connection to our roots and to the foundations of this great province.
