Hocking County Historical and Genealogical Society and Museum

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                            WELCOME

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            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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          BARN PAINTING AUCTION

  Starts January 17  Ends February 17, 2021

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     THE HOCKING CLAY MANUFACTURING COMPANY                                                                                                From the 1896

    Journal-Gazette Souvenir Edition,     Logan, OH

   This is one of Logan’s most important industries and of the numerous clay manufacturing industries of the valley is second only to the Haydenville Plant. The person whose only source of knowledge concerning the production of these goods is confined to that obtained in a summary of the different kinds of goods manufactured and machinery used for its production, has a very inadequate idea of the immensity of the industry or of the great amount of capital, brain and brawn expended in preparing them for market. Much of the clay used is dry and extremely hard and comes from the mine in chunks like rock and ponderous machinery is required to pulverize it for the mixing pans. It requires to be crushed, rolled, ground, mixed, pressed, glazed, burned each process requiring specially adapted machinery, and all connected by a system of railway tracks for the transportation of the partially furnished products from the drying rooms and pressing machines to the kilns, undergoing as many manipulations as does the iron ore which overlays it, in its course from the mine to the finished product of iron or steel.The Hocking Clay Manufacturing company was organized and incorporated in 1890 and erected a plant at Logan, Ohio, the county seat of Hocking County, fifty miles south-east of Columbus, on the main line of the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway, at the intersection of the Straitsville, Athens, Wellston and Jackson branches.  The geology of this locality is such as to command the entire range of fireclays at their out-cropping, Logan being located immediately upon the edge of the basin of the great Hocking Valley Coal Fields. The plant of this Company consists of two large buildings, two and three stories high, used for the manufacture of and drying clay goods. The plant is equipped with two steam power brick presses; two Hayden street block presses; and the necessary grinding and mixing pans; fourteen round down draft kilns; brick engine house; brick boiler house; clay she; blacksmith shop; carpenter shop; and general office.  The office is of new and original designs of fire-clay materials manufactured by the Company. The entire plant together with buildings, kilns, railroad tracks, yards, etc., occupy ten acres of ground. This Company manufacturers quite a variety of clay goods such as Sewer Pipe, Fire Proofing, Wall coping, Hayden street pacing block, Hocking street paving blocks, Fire Brick, Chimney Pipe, Chimney tops, flue linings, sidewalk tiles, etc.The reputation so long sustained by this company for the excellent quality, and shape of its clay goods has been earned and will be maintained by their ambition to send out nothing but first-class material. In sewer pipe the shape, style, strength and glazing, in fact quality rather than quantity is the great object sought, and the selection of clays especially adapted to making a vitrified body, round shape, and smooth surface, is given the closest attention. The same grade and mixture of clays and the same attention is applied in the manufacture of wall coping, street paving blocks, and sidewalk tile. The very excellent quality of this material and especially the sidewalk time is now everywhere recognized. These goods are sold in large quantities in nearly every state in the Union.  This company is now using natural gas for generating steam and burning all their clay goods.The officers of the company are W.B. Hayden, President; J.W. Jones. Vice President; C.E. Bowen, Treasurer and M Magoon, Secretary and General Manager with their General Office at Logan, Ohio.

            

 

           THROWBACK  THURSDAY                                         CLICK

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            Volunteers Working to Open

      General Curtis Scaparrotti (Retired)

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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.