Exploring the Region – Part 6

The Museum at Lassen’s Resort on Cedar Lake

Hi, happy Mother’s Day to all who are celebrating! I will have a Mother’s Day post later tonight (or tomorrow), but I wanted to make an Exploring the Region post for this awesome place we went to today. 

After our mother’s day festivities, we went to the Museum at Lassen’s Resort on Cedar Lake. According to one of the employees, the building used to be on the opposite side of the lake, but one winter when the lake froze over, they slid the entire building across the lake and today it stands in that same spot. How cool! Check out their website to learn more, and don’t quote me, but I am almost positive Cedar Lake used to export ice!

“The 1920s Come Alive On The Lake” the pamphlet reads – and it sure did! This little museum was so cool. Did you know Cedar Lake (meaning the lake itself, not the town) was created by a gigantic melting iceberg? 

Isn’t that incredible? Look at that picture of the height difference between the iceberg and the tallest building in Chicago (the Sears tower)! 

The museum also had a ton of different rooms that really took you back in time to the early 1900’s. There were kitchens, bedrooms, and even classroom exhibits: 

Honestly, it felt like you we were stepping back in time, and after listening to a lot of spooky things over the years, specifically hearing stories on Jim Harold’s Campfire, I was afraid that I was going to fall into a time-slip and end up in the past lol. I was waiting for it after every doorway I walked through! It was really cool to think about how a hundred years ago or so, real people stood where we were standing. Cooking, sleeping, teaching, it was a really cool feeling. 

In the school room there was a mannequin in the corner of the room dressed in one of those early 1900’s black dresses with the turtle neck, and I only saw it out of the corner of my eye and it almost gave me a heart attack lol. I thought someone was standing there or that there was a ghost or something. Thankfully, it was just a piece of plastic all dressed up. 

They also had a room that looked like a boat, and tons of tools to carve up ice hung on the walls:

Here are some other pics: 

The museum was incredible, and I cannot wait to go back. I might actually ask someone who works there for an interview because they are all so knowledgeable and the story of the building and the town is so interesting. The man we spoke with also said they eventually would like to turn the place into a bed and breakfast, and since it’s right on Cedar Lake it would be perfect! I hope they turn that dream into a reality. 

If you want to learn more, you can follow the link here: www.lasenresort.org

I hope you enjoyed this edition of Exploring the Region!

Peter

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