Historic Sites
Bruce Mansion Museum Complex
318 Main Street, Waitsburg, WA 99361
Their annual fundraising event is the Pioneer Fall Festival - 3rd Sunday in September
Available for tours daily with reservations 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Mid-May - September
Suggested Donation: $10 per person / $25 for a group
Book Your Tour Online
tel:509 386 3739
E-mail: whstour@gmail.com
This beautiful mansion built in 1883 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Annual memberships in the Waitsburg Historical Society benefit the continued restoration of the Bruce House.
Bruce Museum Complex also includes:
THE CARRIAGE HOUSE featuring handsome horse-drawn carriage and tack
THE SCHOOL HOUSE with scholastic and educational artifacts from the area
THE WAITS MILL REPLICA which you will find inside a small building on the Wilson Phillips Museum site.
THE WILSON PHILLIPS HOUSE sits adjacent to the Bruce House Museum. It was a Victorian-era home now filled with curated special collections of local items and interests. In addition to housing rotating displays on the first floor, other rooms hold displays of vintage fashions, military items, a barbershop and sewing room. Wilson Phillips House was donated to the Waitsburg Historical Society by Mary Liebermann Phillips.
Waitsburg traces its roots back to 1865, when pioneer settler Sylvester Wait opened a flour mill on Coppei Creek. In the midst of a city and organizational push to restore the old mill, fire struck the five-story mill on September 5, 2009.
The Waits Mill Kiosk is located on Mill Race Road. On the right just over the Main Street Bridge at the end of Waits Park in the original location of the Waits Mill.
Lewis and Clark Trail State Park
36149 Hwy 12
Dayton, WA 99328-9500
(509) 337-6457
Park Rangers offer talks/reenactments on Lewis & Clark, local natives, trappers, regional plants and pioneers every summer. Located 3 miles east of Waitsburg.
website https://www.parks.wa.gov/539/Lewis-Clark-Trail
