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Online Tour - Welcome Room

Take a walk back in time to discover what materialistic objects people once had.  The Welcome Room, named for Alfred Welcome, contains the Welcome family collection.  Within the collection, visitors will find dishes, glasses, and even a curling iron!  Most of the objects in this room were possessions of the Welcome family.  The city of Welcome owes its namesake to Alfred Welcome.  The north wall takes visitors on a journey through the years of growth in Welcome and Sherburn.  Visitors will immediately notice the vast array of dresses within the room.  Some of these dresses belonged to Mrs. Welcome but the Pioneer Museum has accumulated countless others over the years.  The type of dresses range between wedding dresses and confirmation dresses.  In the southwest corner of the room, visitors will notice something peeking out from the hallway.  The robe is exactly what it looks like, a vintage Ku Klux Klan uniform.  Back in the early 1930s, the Klan thrived in Martin County.  Membership into the Klan cost only $10 and the group boasted 3,000 members in the county.  Many people probably learned in school that the Klan was a Southern phenomenon but it did grow in the North as well.