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

     PLAN TO OPEN - MAY 2 - 3, 2020

                        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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                    MARCH

            Women's History Month
   The month of March is designated as Women’s History Month every year by Presidential proclamation to honor women’s contributions in American history.  
   We will be posting some history of local ladies that have really earned their place in Hocking County.

   Maybe you can also add women you feel are worthy of being mentioned in Women's History Month.

   Let's celebrate the Hocking County women of the past this month.

              (see Special Project page)

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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.