The Onaway Historical Society is dedicated to preserving Onaway, Michigan’s proud history for future generations. We are also planning to renovate the Lobdell Administration Building into our future home.

Displaying Onaway history through items and stories from its founding in the latter 1800s to the present,
The Onaway Historical Museum is  located on the first floor of the Onaway Historic Courthouse located at 20774 State Street. Follow the history of Onaway through its founding to almost  being a county seat, to factory boom town based on the lumber industry, through desperate times and finally into a northern Michigan tourist destination

Now displaying items depicting Onaway at the turn of the 20th Century, including a turn of the century school room, doctor's office, typical parlor, and a very nice display of wooden steering wheels from the American Rim Company aka, Lobdell-Emery Wooden Steering Wheel Factory.

Also come in and view the contents of the 1908 Historic Courthouse Cornerstone Time Capsule opened on July 4, 2008!