Center for Rural History

The Center for Rural History serves as the visitor center for the park and houses an office for park staff, restrooms for park visitors, and meeting space that is available to rent for private events and educational programs. This barn took fifteen years, many volunteers, and a lot of persistence to see to completion.

In 2004, a local family donated their barn to Schumacher Farm Park. The barn was hoisted up and moved to this location, sitting on pilings while a foundation was prepared. One week before the barn was scheduled to be placed on the foundation, a wind storm blew it over and destroyed it. Soon afterwards, planning and fundraising began to create a new barn. A local construction company was hired, and the barn was built using traditional techniques, and based the design on the destroyed barn.

Since opening in 2019, the Center has been an important part of Schumacher Farm Park’s mission to preserve and share Wisconsin’s agricultural history.