[ April 2, 2011; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Come help us celebrate the preservation of this National Historic Landmark with a Mortgage Burning and Unveiling of The Donor Plaque
In the fall of 1861, the Union selected Johnson’s Island as the site of their only stand-alone prison site. Receiving the first prisoners on April 10, 1862, Johnson’s Island housed over 10,000 Confederate officers captured [...]

[ April 2, 2011; 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Almost exactly 150 years after the first shots of the Civil War were fired, another wave of volunteers is about to descend on America’s storied battlegrounds and prison sites – only this array of dedicated men and women will be armed with paint brushes, trash bags and weed whackers.
On Saturday, April 2, 2011, history buffs [...]

Almost exactly 150 years after the first shots of the Civil War were fired, another wave of volunteers is about to descend on America’s storied battlegrounds and prison sites – only this array of dedicated men and women will be armed with paint brushes, trash bags and weed whackers.
Engraving of Johnson's Island Civil War Prison [...]

[ December 29, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Join the Johnson’s Island Civil War Roundtable on December 29th at 7p.m. for a presentation by Bob Minton from Fostoria and Mark Holbrook from Columbus on the Sesquicentennial 2010-2015 of the American Civl War. Holbrook will also present the book “The Buckeye Vanguard,” the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, by Richard [...]

[ July 24, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Join the Johnson’s Island Civil War Round Table for a presentation by Karel Lea Biggs entitled “Peering Through the Fog of War- the 71st Ohio Infantry at Shiloh.”

Location: T.J. Willies, Tiffin, Ohio