 After languishing for a few years, in January 1967 "Keewatin" was bought by West Michigan entrepreneur Roland J. Peterson Sr. for $37,000, $2,000 more than it would have sold for scrap.It arrived on the Kalamazoo River in Douglas, Michigan, on 27 June 1967.The ship was known as "Keewatin Maritime Museum", permanently docked, from 1968 until its relocation in 2012.