Travel Blog - Ohio History Connection

August 27, 2025

Road Trippin’ with Truda: Buckeye Furnace

Join our membership manager, Truda Shinker, as she visits the sites in the Ohio History Connection network! This month's trip took her to Buckeye Furnace in Wellston. Buckeye Furnace was built in 1851 during Ohio’s heyday of iron production. One of dozens of blast furnaces that dotted the Hanging Rock Iron Region, Buckeye Furnace once […]

July 29, 2025

Road Trippin’ with Truda: National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center

This month’s road trip was a great reminder that, even at your favorite sites, there’s always something new to see. I’ve been to the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center (NAAMCC) several times over the last few years. It’s a beautiful museum with thought-provoking exhibits and passionate staff members. Address: The National Afro-American Museum & Cultural […]

July 10, 2025

Road Trippin’ with Truda: Seip Earthworks

Join our membership manager for a very special road trip to Seip Earthworks in Bainbridge. Seip Earthworks is part of the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, which is run by the National Park Service. It is NOT an Ohio History Connection site. However, Seip is part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks World Heritage site. Admission […]

June 4, 2025

Road Trippin’ with Truda: Rankin House

Join me as I visit the sites in the Ohio History Connection network! This month's road trip took me to the John Rankin House in Ripley. The Rankin House tells the story of John and Jean Rankin, who along with their 13 children, their neighbors in Ripley and their church community, helped the enslaved on […]

May 19, 2025

Road Trippin’ with Truda: Our House Tavern

Join me as I visit the sites in the Ohio History Connection network! This month’s trip took me to Our House Tavern in Gallipolis. A beautiful example of Federal-style architecture, Our House Tavern was built in 1819 by Henry Cushing and his sister Elizabeth to serve as a tavern, inn and gathering place […]

February 11, 2025

Behind the Scenes: The Winter Work at Historic Sites

Most Ohio History Connection sites are open year-round, but we have a few that close for the winter. However, that doesn’t mean nothing is happening at these sites! “The offseason is actually our busiest season,” explains Tanner Immel, site manager of Schoenbrunn Village in New Philadelphia. With 18 cabins to care for, as […]

February 10, 2025

One Family’s Ohio History Adventure!

The Wisher Family of Delphos used their Ohio History Passport to create memories & adventures. On September 1st of 2019, my wife Lindsey, daughter Nora and myself were just setting off to visit a site we had been wanting to visit for some time, Serpent Mound. While we were there, we stumbled upon the Ohio History […]

February 5, 2025

Road Trippin’ with Truda: Octagon Earthworks

Join me as I visit the sites in the Ohio History Connection network! This month’s trip took me to the Octagon Earthworks in Newark. You’ll probably be hearing a lot about the Octagon Earthworks from all of us at the Ohio History Connection. We’re very excited that the site is now publicly accessible. Built […]

January 3, 2025

Discover Discovery Park at the Ohio History Center

The Ohio History Center has recently updated the Discovery Park play area. Located in the Nature of Ohio section of the museum, Discovery Park now features camping and outdoors-themed activities for kids aged six and under. Kids will think they're just having fun, but you'll know they're practicing fine motor skills with puzzles and […]

October 2, 2024

Road Trippin’ with Truda: Fort Recovery

Join me as I visit the sites in the Ohio History Connection network! This month’s trip took me to Fort Recovery Museum and Monument in the Village of Fort Recovery. Fort Recovery is the site of two important battles: The 1791 victory of nine Native Nations over General Arthur St. Clair’s forces (commonly referred to […]