Celebrating the Holidays Downtown for the first time at the new Forest House. We had a great time at the Forest House last night 11/25/2022, giving out gallons of hot chocolate and hundreds of cookies to several hundred people that stopped in to see the building and the Christmas decorations. Thanks to our Historical Association […]

Great crowd, good wine and food. Members were very excited to get a first view of the Forest House and to celebrate HASH’s 20 year anniversary. Thank you to our members and their guests who came out to support the project and the vendors who helped to make the event successful…Cogdal Vineyards, Harbor Light Brewery, […]

Catch up on what’s going on. Read the July 2022 HASH Newsletter (PDF)

The Pine Knoll Cottage Model is at Home in the Historical Association of South Haven. Helen B. O’Rourke stands beside her scale model recreation of Pine Knoll (above). She has been the owner and caretaker of Pine Knoll since 1968. Helen has owned this home since 1968 and felt that it was such a splendid […]

Jim Ollgaard was on The Friday Morning Breakfast Club on COSY-FM 103.7, Friday morning 2/25/2022 at 8:30am. Jim talked about the recent purchase of Forest House and HASH’s plans for their new building in downtown South Haven. Listen to a recording of the show (below) and hear the details for the renovation and future use […]

From the Desk of the President, It’s been a few years since I wrote to you directly but I wanted to personally share some wonderful news. From the first day of the existence of the Historical Association of South Haven, Ed Appleyard and I have had the same dream. We knew that the first hotel […]

We are open 9am-3pm Tuesday and Wednesday at Hartman School to view exhibits and learn about the history of South Haven and the lighthouse. HASH will be open again on Sundays from 11pm-4pm Memorial Day to Labor Day. We supply masks if you don’t happen to have one with you. Come visit the Historical Association […]