MILTON-FREEWATER — Save the date for Frazier Farmstead Museum’s annual Summer Festival on Saturday, June 22, from 6-10 p.m.

The festival is a fundraiser for the museum. It features a catered dinner, live music, and a silent auction for 21 and older.

“It is a great event for catching up with friends while enjoying delicious food, tasty wine, delightful music, and fun dancing,” says Museum Director Dawn Fehrenbacher.

It is also an opportunity to find unique treasures in the silent auction and have fun while helping a nonprofit.

Tickets are $65 per person and can be purchased online at www.frazierfarmsteadmuseum.org.

Located at 1403 Chestnut St. in Milton-Freewater, the museum is open to the public from April through December on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and other times by appointment for individual and group tours.

There is no admission charge, however, all donations are welcome.

The public can also reserve the museum grounds for wedding receptions and other events.

For more information, email Fehrenbacher at frazier1868@gmail.com or call 541-938-4636.

About the museum

The farmstead centerpiece is the house built by William Samuel Frazier in 1892, and other points of interest include a 1918 barn, a carriage house and the McCoy Cabin. Plans are underway to add a one-room schoolhouse.

The last Frazier occupants of the house, brother and sister Earl “Pete” and Lela, lived there until 1983. They willed the estate and its contents to the Milton-Freewater Area Foundation and established an endowment to make the farmstead museum happen.

The restored house and farm museum is operated and maintained by the Milton-Freewater Area Historical Society.

The museum gets about 1,500 visitors a year. In spring and fall, grade school children visit one classroom at a time for special field trips.

Step outside on the six-acre grounds, and at the Carriage House you’ll see an elaborate family tree and Dr. C.W. Thomas’ office.

Upstairs in the barn is an advertising collection, including ones for Milton Ice and Cold Storage and Munselle Co. Furniture.

The McCoy Cabin, brought here from the Indian Trail crossing of the Walla Walla River, shows the rough and ready way many pioneers lived in the early days of settlement.