About The Wayne County Museum

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The Wayne County Museum was a house constructed in 1900 by Dr. W.C. Wightman. Initial cost of the house was about $13,000. It took around two years to build the house. The house is of the Neo-Colonial style of architecture which is a Victorianized Colonial style. 



The Wightman family lived in this house until 1912 and then moved to California. The Wightman family sold the house to a local banker named Rollie W. Ley, for about $6,000. The Rollie family continued to own the house until 1976 when Mr. Ley's heirs donated it to the Wayne County Historical Society for use as a museum.



The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is decorated and furnished much as it would have been at the turn of the century. The entire house is filled with donated items from present and former Wayne County citizens.