HOCKING COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY and museum




64 NORTH CULVER STREET
LOGAN, OHIO 43138-0262
1-740-385-6026


"the best kept secret in the valley"

six building campus




we are holding another
barn painting auction
may 2023
the barns will be round style

See dr kroeger video
youtube.com/watch?v=YRmX7aPbq8I

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we are now closed for the winter
call for a tour of main building
re-open april 2, 2023

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still a few $15.00 dvd
searching for hocking canal

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55th annversary
2022 barn painting calendar
limited edition

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just arrived
2023 postcards
find them at
home grown on main









"THE BEST KEPT SECRET IN THE VALLEY"

6 BUILDING COMPLEX





railway telegraph



Look back in to history Hocking Valley Railroad Telegraph Office Test your Morse Code knowledge



print shop



View printing presses paper cutters Radios print dies and photos ​



schempp house



Built 1881 by Kitsmiller 1894 Charles Keynes and Lucy Moore married 1st house to have electricity ​Display for Tessa Sweazy Webb and Katie Smith



museum



Sit in early 1900's desks and write on chalkboards in recreated 1912 School House view medical office military uniforms and equipment toys Mastodon teeth Indian artifacts ​



carriage house



shuck corn on corn sheller local coal mining equipment model oil rig local clay and brick industry corn broom making farm tools



lutz steam car



Henry Lutz, a Logan inventor, built a steam-powered automobile in 1899. It is the only one of its kind and HCHGSM was formed around its donation in 1966. It is kept in pristine condition and is on display in its own building along with Lutz' other inventions. Stiers Family original pioneer wagon in same building.



SOME OF OUR DISPLAYS