Featured Topic of the Month
The Cleveland Grays is the longest-operating, volunteer militia unit in Ohio’s history.
Ohio Historical Marker. Source: Remarkable Ohio at www. remarkableohio.org
Founded in 1837, the Grays initially helped Cleveland officials in deterring crime. For the first twenty-four years of the organization’s existence, its members saw no formal military duty. This changed with the [...]
[ October 30, 2010; 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. ] The second in the museum’s historic lecture series features Civil War historian and local attorney Tim Brookes.
Admission: $4/adult, $2/student (all ages) and FREE/Ohio Historical Society and Museum of Ceramics members. To register, call 800.600.7180.
Location: Museum of Ceramics, 400 East Fifth Street on the corner of Broadway, in East Liverpool, in Columbiana County
Website: www.themuseumofceramics.org
Our latest featured photograph of unidentified Civil War soldiers from the Ohio Historical Society collections depicts five veterans photographed on an unknown date.
This photograph shows five men, veterans of the Civil War, standing in front of the Edwin Stanton statue which stands on the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, Ohio. All [...]
[ October 17, 2010; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] The Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War will be recognizing the last Union veteran buried in Adams County.
Who: The Gen. William H. Lytle Camp #10 of Cincinnati. The Camp is a unit of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), a volunteer, non-profit, patriotic and educational organization [...]
[ October 15, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. October 16, 2010; 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. October 17, 2010; 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] Come visit the John T. Wilson Homestead during the Civil War Days! There will be Civil War reenactors and encampments, crafts, displays, Ladies’ Tea, fashion show, story tellers, period music, tours, wagon rides, children’s petting zoo and much more.
For more information and a complete schedule, see the flyer here: http://www.adamscountychamber.org/images/CivilWarDay.pdf.
Location: John T. Wilson Homestead, Tranquility, [...]