Hocking County Historical and Genealogical Society and Museum

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                            WELCOME

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

            CORONAVIRUS19

   THE BOARD HAS VOTED TO KEEP THE            MUSEUM CLOSED THIS YEAR

                         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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              Stier’s Family Wagon

          The Faces of Logan Past

       (LDN article, date unknown)

Hocking County Historical Society members (top, from left) Floyd Hiles, Robert Stivison, Marion Allen, Helen and Dick Mowrey, were busy last week unloading one of the many treasured donations to the society; a Conestoga wagon.

The wagon was donated by the William Stiers family of Alexandria. It was used to bring his great-grandfather, Isaac Stiers to Hocking county in 1837. The Stiers family settled in Starr Twp. just below Haydenville.

The wagon now is in the Lutz Building at the Museum.
To schedule a tour of the 6 buildings on our campus, please contact Nyla at 740 385-2255 or 740 603-1876 or nvollmer@nelsonvilletv.com, you can also contact Ann at 740 590-6023 or acramer2@frontier.com. We will be practicing social distancing.

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            Volunteers Working to Open

      General Curtis Scaparrotti (Retired)

                         Exhibit

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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.