Your History Experience Begins Here

Adair Annex & Henry County Museum Welcome Center

Welcome to the entrance of the Henry County Museum.

Whether you want to see our historic buildings, our extensive collection of artifacts, or take a tour, your history journey begins here, in the Adair Annex and Museum Welcome Center!

Welcome Center & Main Showroom

Gift shop.

Welcome Center

  • Welcome desk

  • Buy tickets

  • Take tours

  • Gift shop

  • Genealogy services

  • Historical archives

  • Management office

Paintings by local artists hung on a wall.

Main Showroom

  • Traveling exhibits

  • Rotating exhibits

  • Notable local artists

  • Thomas Clark figurines

Early 1900s Village

Red and black antique car on main street of the Village.

Main Street

  • Store fronts

  • Antique car

  • Baby buggy

  • Horse-drawn carriage

  • Large photographs of the Clinton Square circa 1900

  • Novelty coin-operated scales

  • Wooden hand-carved & painted Indian

Apothecare shop with shelves of glass bottles.

Apothecary & Drug Store

  • An ornate National Cash Register (NCR)

  • Boxed candies

  • Cameras circa 1920s to 1940s

  • Cigars, tobacco, smoking pipes

  • Cosmetics, brushes, hair care, mirrors

  • Dental care

  • Druggist chemicals to fill prescriptions, scales, circa 1880s to 1920s

  • Edison cylinder player

  • Medicinal tonics, pills, vitamins, and herbs

  • Medical glass bottles circa 1880s 1920s

  • Soda and ice cream bar

  • Snake oil remedies, herbs, laxatives

Bank bag from Peoples National Bank.

Bank

  • Bank bags, clock, journals

  • Calculating machine

  • Change-making machine

  • Coin dispensers by Saats Tray Co., circa 1890

  • Combination desk and wall phone

  • Hammond typewriter (circular key strike design)

  • Perforating machine from American Bank Equipment Co.

  • Paper press (compression)

  • Shotgun

  • Small potbelly coal stove by Starsen

  • Small safe

  • Spittoon

  • Teller cabinetry from Bank of Calhoun

Haircut and bath sign.

Barber Shop

  • Barber’s chair

  • Coffin-shaped tub

  • Hand-operated and motor-driven clippers

  • Razor strop

  • Shaving brushes

  • Water heater with burner

  • Wooden barber’s pole

Photo of an examination bed and medical tools.

Doctor’s Office

  • Baby scale

  • Diplomas

  • Examination table

  • Fainting couch

  • Medical books

  • Medical instruments and tools

  • Privacy screen

Harness Shop

Close up image of a leather saddle.

  • Bridles

  • Harnesses

  • Industrial-grade treadle sewing machine

  • Leather working tools

  • Saddles, side saddles

  • Shoe repair tools

  • Workbench

Law Office

  • Typewriter circa 1900

  • Conference table with chairs

  • Drop-front writing desk

  • Ediphone voice writer circa 1920

  • Fireplace surround

  • Receptionist desk with handwritten records

  • Volumes of law books, glass and open shelves

  • Waiting area chairs

  • Wall phone

Goods on shelves and counter.

Provisions Store

  • Bulk coffee, and canned Butternut, Folgers

  • Cash register by American Can Co.

  • Catalog order book for men’s suits

  • China, cookware

  • Coffee grinder

  • Fabrics, clothing, shoes, hats, sewing notions

  • Hardware, hammers, clamps, traps

  • Kitchenwares, pots, pans

  • Larabee’s flour

  • Metal washboards by Haysler Washboard Mfg.

  • Paints by Benjamin Moore

  • Potbelly stove by Frostkiller

  • Quaker Oats containers

Visit Our Other Historic Properties and See Thousands of Artifacts

Select a building to discover what is inside.

Anheuser-Busch building front facade.
Image of the WW&H Exchange building.
Dorman House.
Dog-trot log house.
One-room schoolhouse with the US flag.