Peter Dougherty Society

Mission: To restore, maintain, and display the home and grounds of Peter Dougherty.

The Peter Dougherty Society is a nonprofit whose goal is to create a historical, educational and cultural center to inform visitors at the Peter Dougherty Mission House about the accomplishments of Reverend Peter Dougherty as well as early farming and tourism in the Grand Traverse region. Volunteers for the Peter Dougherty Society carefully restored the historic Peter Dougherty house in the village of Old Mission for many years. It now is a historical, cultural and educational center that focuses on the activities and people surrounding the house from the 1840s through 1910.

The home and surrounding grounds required extensive restoration. Now completed, the House site is an historical, cultural, educational and community center as well as a museum for all visitors. The grounds include the Heritage Trail and Accessible Trail as well as gardens which reflect farming in the late 19th Century. We have furnished the interior with furniture and artifacts appropriate to the period from 1842 to 1910.