[ May 13, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. May 14, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. May 15, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. May 16, 2010; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Demonstrations of early American life.

Presenter: Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution

The site was originally   the homestead of Christian Waldschmidt who purchased the land after serving in the Revolutionary War.   During the Civil War, Camp Dennison was home to one of the largest training and hospital camps in the Union Army.

The event will feature demonstrations of [...]

October Featured Topic
The Battle of Buffington Island was the only major Civil War engagement fought in the State of Ohio.
On July 8, 1863, Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate cavalry leader, led approximately two thousand soldiers across the Ohio River into southern Indiana. Morgan’s superiors had dispatched the cavalry leader into northern Kentucky to cause [...]

View of the entry of Morgan's Raiders into Washington, Ohio, from Harper's Weekly, Saturday, August 15, 1863. In July 1863 Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan lead approximately 1,400 calvarymen on a 13 day raid through southern and eastern Ohio. At the Battle of Buffington Island, 750 men were captured and 300 escaped across the [...]