A $1 million endowment has been announced for the Dowagiac Area History Museum.

Michigan Gateway Community Foundation President Michael Rowland tells us the Lyons Family, of Lyons Industries, has made a $100,000 a year for ten years pledge to establish the fund to help the museum pursue its mission into the future. Rowland says Dowagiac Mayor Don Lyons was looking for ways to support the community in a big way.

“ Don, in particular, was really excited about the opportunity of trying to figure out a way to make this what we call a forever organization, an organization that has an endowment behind it that is providing everlasting dollars for their operating,” Rowland said.

The Dowagiac Area History Museum in downtown Dowagiac boasts of free admission and is dedicated to preserving the hi

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