The Ernie Pyle State Historic Site consists of a Visitor Center and a Historic House. The Visitor Center exhibits feature life-size scenes based on Ernie Pyle's writings and experiences as a World War II correspondent. The exhibits include state-of-the-art audio and video stations and contain authentic World War II uniforms, weapons, and gear, including a 1944 Willys jeep. The Historic House from the farm where Pyle was born is furnished as an early 1900s rural Indiana farmhouse.

Dana residents worked with the American Legion and the Eli Lilly Foundation to move and restore the Historic House from the farm where Ernie was born. The house was dedicated as an Indiana State Historic Site in 1976. The Friends of Ernie Pyle worked with the Scripps Howard Foundation to construct two Quonset huts to become the site's Visitor Center in 1995. The permenant exhibits were completed in 1998. Local veterans groups donated a 1944 Ford jeep for outreach programs.