The Hesler Log House is a rare surviving log house from the early settlement of the Old Mission Peninsula. Joseph and Mary Hesler built it from 1854 to 1856 of hand hewn pine and hemlock logs fourteen miles south of here on the peninsula’s eastern shore. Joseph, from Canada, and Mary, from Ireland, were among the Irish, English, Canadian, and Scottish immigrants living in the southern part of the township in 1860. Completed in 1856, the house typifies the first shelters built by early pioneers, who cleared forested land, used the timber to build houses, and planted crops. The Heslers sold the house in 1866, and over the next 125 years it served as a private residence, housing for migrant workers, a school, and quarters for a bull. Threatened with demolition in 1992, it was saved when citizens rallied, and it was moved to this site and restored.