Wayne County Historical Society & Museum Wooster Ohio
546 East Bowman St.
Wooster, OH 44691
330-264-8856
We invite you to come visit our campus in person! Tour the grounds and enjoy the fascinating history of Wayne County. Our large campus offers an exciting glance back in time with tours of historic buildings containing local artifacts.
Note: Some of our buildings sustained water damage from severe flash-flooding. Please consider making a donation to the Wayne County Historical Society today to help defray the costs associated with the water damage from flooding that occurred on campus at the end of February 2011.
The opening exhibit is planned for March 11, 2012 and will illustrate how governments from both sides of the Civil War dealt with the issues of financing the war through the display of currency and financial papers from collectors throughout the Midwest.
Also included in this exhibit will be materials illustrating how local citizens coped with the lack of small change, an issue which plagued both north and south throughout the conflict. The most complete collection of Wayne County merchant tokens ever assembled will be on display.
The Wayne County Historical Society recently received a wonderful donation of meticulously hand-drawn home landscape plans for a number of Wooster-area properties from Nancy Welty Clark. She is the daughter of prominent landscape architect, Wallace M. Welty, who designed landscapes for many large private estates, not only in Ohio, but across the Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, … [Read More]

I had the opportunity to attend a Fellowship Luncheon on December 16, 2011 at the First Presbyterian Church in Wooster where the College of Wooster Professor emeritus Gordon Tait spoke on Chapel (required class), and The Chapel (the building), at The College of Wooster. Mr. Tait graciously permitted me to record his lecture and reproduce … [Read More]
Office hours: Tue & Fri, 1:30PM-4:30PM.
Open for tours MAR 11-OCT, Fri & Sat, 1:30PM-4:30PM.
Last tour available at 3:30PM.
Group tours are available by appointment only in DEC, JAN, and FEB.
Closed holidays.
Contact our tour coordinator at 330-264-8856 or e-mail: host@waynehistoricalohio.org
ADMISSION: $5.00 adults; children under 14 and members of the society, no charge.

This month, the Wooster City School Board continues to … [Read More]
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