If you're looking for some summertime fun for the family, how about a local history lesson?

Heritage Square Museum in Ontario, Wayne County is a 13-acre site with ten historic buildings filled with household and industrial items used by Ontario's early settlers.

Some items pre-date the Civil War.

There's a barn, apple drying house, train depot, school house, blacksmith shop, and even an iron ore miner's house.

"It's important to know where we came from," said museum co-president, Tom Wiederhold. "And it's important to know how this community grew, what it's roots were, and where it's going in the future because of course everything changes as we go along."

The museum hosts nearly 1,000 students from local schools every year.

The museum is open every weekend this summer from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.