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Partners in Education will be continuing with Mrs. Shackelford's 5th grade class at Central Elementary School. We visit the class once a month and bring a cultural or science learning activity. In the Fall, we study fossils and conduct a "dig" in the classroom. In Janu...

Middle Ages to be Demonstrated at Historical Society's Quarterly Meeting

The program will feature members of the Society for Creative Anachronism - recreating what life was like in the Middle Ages. The Grand River Historical Society will hold their quarterly meeting on...

CAPTION: The Grand River Historical Society Museum has a new face among the antique and historical memorabilia within its walls - Pamela Clingerman, newly hired museum curator.

The Grand River Historical Society Museum has a new face among the antique and historical mem...

History Lesson

Joan Holcer (center) takes a group of middle school students from Diane Mapel's sixth grade class through the Grand River Historical Society Museum. Holcer is explaining the different items found in an old-fashioned kitchen.

Middle school students toured t...

Historical Items Get New Look

Visitors to the newly-remodeled Grand River Historical Society Museum

walk through the facility. Here, Chuck and Becky Shouse study features that typically would have been found in a household kitchen years ago. Private donations were used...

CAPTION: Dr. Frank Stark (left) accepts a plaque of appreciation from Marvin Holcer (right) for serving as president of the Grand River Historical Society for 26 years.

Two long-time officers of the Grand River Historical Society board of directors have retired. Dr. Fra...

CAPTION: Just about the time the first day of summer school classes let out, four portions of the Chillicothe R-2 School District's "learning cottage" were hauled into town and carried west down Polk Street, which was blocked off by Chillicothe police. District officia...

CAPTION: The Grand River Historical Society Museum is the beneficiary of a cornerstone (at center) believed to have been from Chillicothe City Hall. The date on the stone is 1926. The slab was discovered by chance a few years ago during a residential sidewalk project a...

David Pyrtle's wood carvings (shown below right) and many other exhibits attract a crowd of interested onlookers Sunday afternoon during the Grand River Historical Society Museum's annual open house. The event, which officially marks the opening of the museum's season,...

CAPTION: A roll-away kerosene-heated tub would have been a luxury in 1902. The unique piece, once owned by Bill and Shirley Tye and shown here by Dr. Frank Stark, is among thousands of historical items on display at the Grand River Historical Society Museum. The museu...