A workshop explaining cursive handwriting with demonstrations and hands-on lessons using quill pens and ink. Also a discussion of how ink was made by gathering natural ingredients. Workshop will be on Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 2:00 PM in the classroom at the Visitor Center. Admission is free and for more information please email info@adenamansion.com […]
Although Thomas and Eleanor Worthington raised their ten children at Adena, only five of these children are buried here in Ross County. Join Mary Anne Brown, Worthington family historian, for a verbal tour of the final resting places of all ten of the children, some far from the Adena home of their youth.
Adena Mansion & Gardens will host a vintage “base ball” game on Sunday, July 10, 2022. Bring your blanket or lawn chair and join us on the grounds when the Adena Worthingtons challenge the Ohio Village Muffins, an 1860’s baseball team that plays the game by 19th century rules, in an exhibition game of vintage […]
The Hoggard Trail in Ross County's Buzzard's Roost Preserve has both natural and historical scenery. In the forest are remnants of 200 years of human alterations: a public road, house ruins, mico-quarries, pine plantations, a graveyard...and periwinkle, which does not plant itself. For those who missed my offering of a historical and geological tour of […]
Have you ever wondered how the brewing process works? Join us Sunday, August 14, 2022 at 2:00pm for a beer brewing event with Old Capitol Brewery. Learn the process of brewing as well as its history. Admission is free and for more information please visit Adena Mansion and Gardens website adenamansion.com, call (740)-772-1500, or email […]
Join us on Saturday, October 1, 2022 from 9 AM- 5 PM and on Sunday, October 2, 2022 from 9 AM-4 PM, the Brigade of the American Revolution will be hosting a Revolutionary War Reenactment. Enjoy the activities on the hill such as Unit Drills, Rifle Demonstrations, Mock Battles, 18th Century Cooking, and begin the […]
Enjoy an Oktoberfest "Goosetown" walking tour by Kevin Coleman 2-4pm Saturday October 1st & 10am-12pm Sunday October 2nd, 2022. Learn about many aspects of Chillicothe's working-class German neighborhood named after the residents' floating livestock. You'll see and hear about workers' cottages with scherenschnitte attic vents and a butcher's Romanesque castle...canal and railroad superhighways...Camp Bull and […]
Enjoy an Oktoberfest "Goosetown" walking tour by Kevin Coleman 2-4pm Saturday October 1st & 10am-12pm Sunday October 2nd, 2022. Learn about many aspects of Chillicothe's working-class German neighborhood named after the residents' floating livestock. You'll see and hear about workers' cottages with scherenschnitte attic vents and a butcher's Romanesque castle...canal and railroad superhighways...Camp Bull and […]
By request, this Sunday Kevin Coleman will offer a walking tour of the 100 block of Vine and Church streets, as well as a look at Chestnut Street and St. Peter Church and School. Join Kevin and neighborhood residents in the courtyard besides St. Peter's at 2pm October 16th, 2022, for an hour-and-a-half walk around […]
A walking tour of Grandview Cemetery's funerary architecture, history, and natural aspects, in honor of Veterans Day. If you missed my spring tours of Chillicothe's scenic landmark burial ground, join me for an opportunity for my guided tour of it this fall - with a nod to those buried there - 2pm Sunday, November 13th, […]
