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McMillan House - Untold Heritage Potential!

Did you know that,

 

The McMillan House, a significant heritage resource, stands in the middle of a property that played a significant role in the agricultural revolution and mechanization in Donyo Sabuk Region?

 

This House is also said to have acted as the meeting headquarters of all white settlers in Kenya East?

 

This house at one time hosted President Roosevelt of America, Winston Churchill of Britain, and an Italian Governor of Eastern Africa?

 

The house also had an observatory from where McMillan studied wildlife?

 

The father of the Kenyan trade unionist Tom Mboya worked as a foreman in McMillan’s sisal estate nearby this house [and by the way, this is where Tom Mboya was born and brought up]?

 

That in the McMillan house, many stories of Kenya’s heritage would significantly be told including that of the world wars, the white settlers and agricultural revolution in Kenya?

 

That the Kogelo Tourism Circuit recognizes this house as a place where Mboya, who would later give a scholarship to Obama senior, was born and brought up?

The Underground Tunnel, with a bunker and a secret prision fitted with hidden escape route outside the building

A hardwood ''steel door" with security features of today but build for the use of the colonialist in the 1920s!

Part of the kitchen cabinet design, very similar to what we have today. This what made by the mightiest of the land...

The backyard looks of the McMillan Castle. Leafy and scenic, with complete features and outlook...

A living room with chimney that uses firewood to keep the house warm. This is where the Governor relaxed...

Side entrance to the McMillan Castle. The compound was kept safe and majestically gorgeous in the days...

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