Edison Museum - Vienna
The Edison Museum pays tribute to the Edison Family, who came to Vienna, from Nova Scotia in the early 1800’s and lived here until the MacKenzie Revolution, when they were forced to escape to Ohio, on the other side of Lake Erie. Their son, Thomas Alva Edison, was born in Milan, Ohio. Thomas Edison is famous for his many inventions, including the incandescent electric light bulb, the phonograph, the movie camera, and many, many others. The original Edison Homestead was moved to Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan, by Henry Ford, of the Ford Motor Company, who was a close friend to Thomas Edison.
The many artefacts, displayed in the Edison Museum, give great insight into his long list of inventions as well as life in Vienna, at that time. Vienna was a bustling town with a population larger than that of London and St. Thomas in the 1850’s due to the tremendous importance of the lumber trade. During the peak of prosperity a number of natural tragedies of fire and flood devastated the village of which it has never recovered to its former population and prosperity.
The quilt block, “Shining Bright”, depicts the light bulb invention of Thomas Edison.
