[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ June 13, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] The Hilltop Historical Society welcomes the public to the 115th Annual Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery Memorial Service. The Color Guards from the 5th Kentucky Infantry and Sons of Union Veterans will be attending.

Location: 2900 Sullivant Ave., Columbus, OH 43204

Event website: http://hilltopusa.tripod.com/

On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head. Lincoln was attending a play, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. He died the next day from the wound.
Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln's casket laying in state in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse [...]