[ December 1, 2011; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] The holiday season opens in Ohio with the 96th annual Statehouse event. Attend the Statehouse Holiday Open House and Festival to kick off the 2011 holiday season. Holiday activities include: carolers, refreshments, model trains, community mascots and much more. Historical characters and modern dignitaries will be on hand to greet [...]

[ August 1, 2010; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] The Camp Chase Fifes and Drums will be playing at the State Fair in Columbus!

The Camp Chase Fifes and Drums has been a leader in historical military field music since the early 1980s.   An authentic recreation of a Civil War-period regimental fife and drum corps founded in 1983, the corps is named after the large [...]

We are starting a new series of posts called “Unknown But Not Forgotten.” A new photograph of an unknown Civil War soldier or civilian from the Ohio Historical Society collections or sent in by the public will be posted bi-weekly to both acknowledge and honor these men and women.   It’s a long shot but maybe [...]

August Featured Topic of the Month
In 1861, Camp Chase was established in Columbus, Ohio, to replace Camp Jackson. Governor William Dennison had ordered Camp Jackson’s creation as a meeting place for Ohio volunteers during the American Civil War. In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to end the South’s rebellion. Governor [...]

[ April 4, 2010; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Georgeanne Reuter, executive director of the Kelton House Museum and Garden, will be giving a presentation on the Kelton Family of Columbus as part of Green Lawn Cemetery’s First Saturdays program. Fernando and Sophia Kelton were abolitionists whose family home was a documented stop on the Underground Railroad. Their son Oscar [...]