Hocking County Historical and Genealogical Society and Museum

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                            WELCOME

  To our web site, we do update, so please come back!        

            SORRY - CLOSED

                        2020

           Saturday 1:00 to 4:00 pm                   

           Sunday    1:00 to 4:00 pm    

  (and other times for group tours with     prior arrangement)

                         FREE Admission

Admission and parking are FREE and our campus is handicapped accessible.

                      Group/bus tours are welcome!

Please call to schedule a time for your private tour.

 We encourage people living in our community and guests visiting the beautiful Hocking Hills to come and see our historically interesting displays that preserve our county's fascinating past. 

                        Phone 1-740-385-6026

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           LELAND LAVON CONNER

                 5/9/30 - 11/16/07

 WITH THE EXHIBIT OF HIS ARTIFACTS

 AT THE MUSEUM, WE WILL FOR             SEVERAL WEEK ,HAVE HIS STORIES, POEMS, RESEARCH AND TALES. 

          (on Special Project page)

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  Please consider helping the Historical Society Museum by adding us to your KROGER PLUS card community rewards.  

   Dear HOCKING COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

Congratulations on your enrollment into the Kroger Community Rewards Program.

Your participants may begin enrolling upon receipt of this email. You have been assigned a new NPO (Non-Profit Organization) number HM713. Please refer to this number in all future correspondence.

To Use the Kroger Community Rewards Program: Simply encourage your participants to visit http://www.kroger.com. Once logged into their Kroger account they can search for HOCKING COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY either by name or HM713 and then click Enroll.

New users will need to create an account which requires some basic information, a valid email address and a rewards card. *Customers must have a registered Kroger rewards card account to link to your organization. *If a member does not yet have a Kroger rewards card, please let them know they are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger REMEMBER, purchases will not count for your organization until after your participants register their rewards card. Participants must swipe their registered Kroger rewards card or use the phone number that is related to their registered Kroger rewards card when shopping for each purchase to count.

Thank you!

Kroger Community Rewards Department

                       

      

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   Six buildings of historic displays showcase the circa 1898 Schempp House, the Lutz Steam Car, original pioneer wagon of the Stiers Family & original Hocking Valley Railroad Telegraph Office, where you can test your Morse Code knowledge.

     Sit in early 1900's desks & write on chalkboards in the recreated 1912 School House and shuck corn on corn sheller's in the Carriage House display of agricultural items   

    View numerous displays of Hocking History including: a medical office, military uniforms & equipment, toys, coal mining, local clay & brick industry, Hocking Canal & bridge history, an example of a print shop, mastodon teeth & Indian artifacts.

     A Timeline Exhibit of Logan and Hocking County features a century of the county's history condensed into four panels is also on display. The timeline includes Native Americans, the first settlers (1798), the Civil War, the Hocking Valley Railway and the 1916 Logan Centennial, ending in 1917, when America joined the war.