East Liverpool: “Of Cannons and Kepis: Civil War Artifacts in the Museum”

By Kristina, posted on October 25th, 2010.

[ 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

Civil War Artifacts Donated to Fulton County Historical Society

By Kristina, posted on July 21st, 2010.

Civil War artifacts and personal memorabilia once owned by Wauseon native, Edwin Lewis Hayes, fourth cousin to President Rutherford B. Hayes, are being donated by his great-great-great grandson to the Fulton County Historical Society in a ceremony at 6:30pm on the South Stage of the Wauseon Homecoming on Friday, August 6. Hayes’ daughter, Hortensia, is [...]

Cincinnati: Rare Civil War Artifact Exhibit, ONE NIGHT ONLY

By Kristina, posted on March 18th, 2010.

[ March 18, 2010; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. ] A display of some never before exhibited artifacts and documents from the Civil War will be on display FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY during “A Historic Evening at the Marcus Center” presented by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA).

Location: 2010 at the AJA, 3101 Clifton Avenue, 45220

This one-of-a-kind event will begin [...]

Mentor: Treasures of Lawnfield: The Museum Collection at James A. Garfield NHS – A 30th Anniversary Celebration

By Amy Wagner, posted on March 2nd, 2010.

Did you know that 80% of the artifacts on display at James A. Garfield NHS are original to the Garfield family and that this collection is one of the country’s most complete collections of presidential artifacts? This final 30th anniversary program will discuss some of the true gems of the site’s museum collection and includes [...]

Cincinnati Museum Center’s GOLD Exhibit to Feature General Lytle’s Medal

By Kristina, posted on February 26th, 2010.

[ February 6, 2010 to May 16, 2010. ] The Cincinnati Museum Center will host GOLD, an exhibit that “explores the splendor of the world’s most valued mineral.” According to CMC’s Mosaic magazine, the exhibit will allow visitors to “Follow gold from the molten depths of the Earth to glittering examples of jewelry and artifacts, from gold rushes that shaped the world to the [...]