Local History Events

Excitement is building for Waterville’s first “Historic Homes Tour” since 1989! Be sure to mark your calendar for Saturday, June 17th so that you can attend this delightful event.  There...

Presented by Al Thurn What is it about Thurn’s Specialty Meats that has hooked customers for 131 years? Is it the real spices added to the sausage and bratwurst?  Is it...

Join Ohio Humanities for the 19th annual tour of Ohio Chautauqua! Chautauqua 2017: The Natural World is a five-day community event that combines living history performances, music, education, with audience...

Presented by Cheryl Blosser and John Winneberg The Little Cities of Black Diamonds is made up of a series of small towns and rural townships in the rugged hills of...

Dubbed "the first lady of naval cryptology", Agnes Meyer Driscoll was inducted into the National Security Hall of Fame for the extraordinary work she did in code-breaking. Join us as...

Hale Farm is open 10am-5pm daily on Civil War Weekend August 12 & 13, 2017 Thousands of visitors and reenactors flock to Hale Farm & Village annually for this popular summertime...

Mary Fahl- Former Lead Singer of OCTOBER PROJECT "Sounding like no other singer of her generation” (Allmusic.com), Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and...

Presented by Rebecca Urban of the Peninsula Foundation After the Civil War, over 1 million Union veterans mustered out and returned to civilian life. Within a short time, many of...

A Columbus community event sponsored by Department of History, Ohio State University Communications Worker of America Columbus Democratic Socialists of America Center for Folklore Studies, Ohio State University 80 years...

This Seminar follows the event “The Life that Sam Might have Lived": Remembering Sam Levinger, the Spanish Civil War, and the Radical Possibilities of the 1930s 80 years ago, Columbusite...

In commemoration of the centennial of the United States' entry into World War I, the Local History Center is going to share the stories of veterans of the war who...

Center School will be open for classes Sunday, September 10, 2017 from 2-4pm. Start time is 2:00 with a history lesson on the area school followed by a tour of the old school....

Wayne County Civil War Roundtable Program We are most pleased to have Dan Welch, co-author of “The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863” come to Wooster...

by Travis Risner Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889-1971) moved to Westerville with her family when she was six.  If anyone told her, while she was growing up, that women didn’t have a...