FCHS 2012

Our 75th year in pictures

Depot Closed for Jan-Feb

75th anniversary reopening party

Anniversary Cake

A Visit to the One-Room School

A Guided Tour

Introducing the Portal website

Exploring the FCHS photo archives

Looking at Washburn architecture

Looking at stereocards

Model train watching

Arrival of the new caboose

Onto Tecumseh Street

Easy does it

Backing into the parking lot

Craning to see the caboose

75th anniversary history symposium

www.franklincokshistory.org

Deborah Barker –on Perry Fuller

Vickie Sandell Stangl -- on Etta Semple

John Nichols on the Confederated Peorias

Louis Reed on Ottawa in 1937—Our Founding Year

Dr. Virgil Dean of the KSHS (and Peoria)

Dr. Steven Foulke of Ottawa University

Attentive listeners

Arrival of Muecke negatives

1944 Flood Damage at DepotJoseph B. Muecke

Muecke images

Landmark Events and Street Markers

Gov. Avery at Centennial Parade

Installing Ottawa’s distinctive concrete street markers

Rural Electrification, Franklin Co.

The end of the kerosene lamp—rural electrification in the late 40s.

Exhibit “Americans by Choice”

Attractive and interesting panels

Exhibit on Dailey Brothers Circus

Portal website outreach

New “Dad” Martin exhibit

Lunch & Learn programs

What’s “inherent vice?”

Glorious Fourth

Louis Reed and Cleon Rickel Read Their Parts of the Declaration of Independence

Louis, Cleon, Kevin Blackwell, Steve Foulke, John Coen, Mark Cation, Blaine Finch, Ken Woods and Louise Dietz pledge allegiance.

Even at 8 a.m., it’s hot in wool.

FCHS Board Member John Nichols cools off under a tree.

Dan Doolittle playsAmerica the Beautiful

Holidays Involve Food

A hearty breakfast was enjoyed at City Park near the 1859 Dietrich Cabin.

Historic Day Camp

A Woman’s Work is Never Done

Kids researched characters and portrayed them at the Depot.

Native Neighbors from Franklin County’s Past

Rosters of the Indian Brigade

Civil War artifacts

Pro-Union Refugees from Indian Territory housed near here

Wyandot artifacts on display

Munsee photos & artifacts

Contrast of old and new regalia

Fancy Dancers

John Ballard explaining the drum

Drummers

The Washees - A family of dancers

Phase Two of caboose project

The caboose with new paint

One – room school programs

Award from OCTA

Oregon – CaliforniaTrails Association

Annual Conclave

Of the Esoteric and Terrible

Order of Pie EatersCivil War

PhotographerAlexanderGardner as portrayed byDr. Doug Mc-Govern ofHutchinson.

Geoff Hanson as Chief Pie Eater

From an earlier production of “The Pie Eaters Present: Spirits in the Old Depot Museum”

Ottawa Library Story Time under the Train Tree

Christmas at the Depot Museum

Vintage Christmas cards

The Train Tree

Partridge in a Pear Tree

The Peacock or Children’s Tree

Soda Fountain Tree

One-room school tree

Victorian Parlor Tree

Staff

Archivist Susan Geiss Digital Projects Librarian Barbara Dew

Ashley Brannan

Has scanned over 5,000Muecke negatives and prints – entering over 3,000 onto PastPerfect

Has enlivened our Facebook page to new levels of readership

10 years ago, 2002

Storage building at W. Wilson and N. Locust collapses in ice storm. Board member Jack Beauchamp stabilized the building enough to get the artifacts out. They were stored all over the county.

50 years ago this coming July 4th