Burns Farmhouse

In 1880, Thomas Burns Sr. made a transaction that would shape his family’s life for generations: he paid $1,190 for 80 acres of land in Mason County. For that price, he gained not just soil but a future — a place to build a home, raise crops, and grow a family.

Thomas and his wife Mary would go on to fill their farmhouse with nine children, five daughters and four sons, making the Burns home a lively, crowded, and richly human place. Today, the Burns Farmhouse at Historic White Pine Village preserves that domestic world, with period furnishings and artifacts that bring the rhythms of 1880s farm life into sharp focus.

It’s a grounding experience; a reminder that behind all the grand narratives of the lumber era and the frontier economy were ordinary families doing the work of building a life, one season at a time.

Adopted By

George Miner