Heritage Tours Heritage Battle Creek currently offers two heritage tours, the “Freedom Saga of Battle Creek” and “The Road to Wellness, The Real Story.” Both tours are conducted by a trained guide, who gives historical and cultural context to the sites visited. Each tour lasts approximately three hours, though times can be modified to suit the needs of each group. A meal, appropriate to the content of the tour, and a living history drama performance, are available for both tours at an additional cost. The cost for each tour, with a step-on guide, is $12.00 per person. Upon request, arrangements may be made to charter a bus in Battle Creek, for an additional charge.

The “Freedom Saga” tour traces Battle Creek’s role in the anti-slavery and Underground Railroad movements in the mid-1800s. The tour tells the story of Sojourner Truth, who lived in Battle Creek for the last 26 years of her life, and visits sites associated with her life. Sites on the tour include the Hardy House in the Historic Adventist Village, the Sojourner Truth Exhibit Room at Kimball House Museum, Quaker Park, Oak Hill Cemetery where Sojourner Truth is buried and the Sojourner Truth and Underground Railroad monuments.

Battle Creek is known around the globe as the ‘cereal city.’ “The Road to Wellness: The Real Story” tour tells the story of how Battle Creek became the breakfast cereal capital of the

world, from the Western Health Reform Institute founded by the Seventh-day Adventists in 1866. This small health reform institute eventually grew into the world-renowned Battle Creek Sanitarium, under the leadership of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. The tour visits the Historic Adventist Village and the Dr. John Harvey Kellogg Discovery Center, the Battle Creek Sanitarium Exhibit Room at Kimball House Museum and Oak Hill Cemetery, where the cereal pioneers are buried, the C. W. Post monument and Kellogg’s Cereal City USA.

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