Celebrate with us a fabulous 2019 season with a Bonfire! Bring your favorite soup or Chili to share and AMGS will provide the Hot Dogs, drinks and all the fixings. Enjoy a evening of food, fun, and friendship. October 23, 2019 at 5:30pm-7:30pm Adena Mansion & Gardens - Visitor Center R. S. V. P. online […]
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Explore the world created by America's First Peoples. Join us on three Thursday evenings in November to view the series, Native America. The Native America series was produced by PBS and premiered in 2018. The four part series reaches back 15,000 years to showcase […]
Featuring the historical society’s beautiful, one-of-a-kind Christmas tree decorated with hundreds of Pennsylvania/German hand-cut paper ornaments by local artist Bonnie Grove; a charming Victorian Christmas parlor with late 19th & early 20th century holiday decorations and toys; and other exhibits including “Toys from the Attic,” and “Chillicothe’s Model Railroad.” New this year will be a […]
A slide show of the earliest surviving buildings in Chillicothe and Ross County, an updated presentation by Kevin Coleman. A week before Chillicothe celebrates Ohio's birthday, see buildings remaining from the first two generations of local settlement, and learn about their construction, styling, use, alteration...and some recent losses. Learn about early log, timber-frame, half-timbering, brick, […]
Daily ranger-guided programs and tours are now available at the Mound City Group Visitor Center of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Visitors have the option of joining a morning tour of Mound City Group at 10:00 AM or an afternoon tour of Mound City Group at 3:30 PM. Additionally, a daily mid-day ranger program at […]
An annual Labor Day weekend walking tour of the small historical industries in downtown Chillicothe, focusing on Water Street from Park Street to Mulberry. Chillicothe's historic downtown was not just for white-collar jobs. The canal, railroads, utilities, mills, small factories, warehouses of all kinds, liveries, restaurants, printers, a brewery, a shoe factory, and even a […]
Enjoy an Oktoberfest "Goosetown" walking tour by Kevin Coleman on the afternoons of Sunday, September 19th and 26th, 2021. 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 Romanesque butcher's castle...canal and railroad superhighways...Camp Bull and […]
A Walk Through Time at Hopewell Mound Group People 2,000 years ago traveled from all over to come to Ross County and the Scioto River valley. Some consider the area the Vatican or the Jerusalem of Eastern North America; a place to gather, make pilgrimages to, and bury your loved ones. No site exemplifies this […]
Join Kevin Coleman for a visit to the third-floor 1874 meeting hall of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with a delicious finish at Old Capitol Brewing...and possibly more, on Sunday, October 24th, 2021. If September's "Ghost Walk" was not enough for you or you missed it, I'm offering a dusk tour of another curious […]
Join us for an evening dinner and fellowship at the Lucy Hayes Heritage Center to commemorate the 1852 marriage of future White House residents Lucy Ware Webb and Rutherford Birchard Hayes. We are continuing our annual tradition of the Hayes' Wedding Banquet at the Lucy House, but again combined with the spirit of Valentine's Day […]
