Ohio History Center Archives - Ohio History Connection

April 28, 2025

Now on Exhibit: Ohio Bell Telephone Truck

By Benjamin Baughman, History Curator The Ohio History Center in Columbus recently included a new addition to its transportation exhibits: an Ohio Bell Telephone repair truck manufactured by the White Motor Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The truck, built in 1919, was restored by the Ohio Bell Telephone Company in the early 1970s and donated to […]

May 5, 2023

Ohio History Center and Ohio Village added to National Register of Historic Places

The Ohio History Connection’s Ohio History Center and Ohio Village are among the most recent properties added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 5.

December 19, 2022

Seven Historic Sites You Should Visit This Winter

Seven historic sites and museums in Ohio you should visit this winter.

August 3, 2021

Reflections on my Summer 2021 Internship

This blog is an opportunity to start reflecting on my internship so far while tying this experience into the things I’ve been learning at school.

December 22, 2020

Donation of Film Documents Historical Sites and Ohio History Center Construction

Imagine how excited you might be to watch home movies that you did not know existed. That is how OHC felt when the Duckworths offered motion pictures from the 1930s to 1960s

March 2, 2020

Three Modern Ohio Women You Should Know

These three women told their stories over the summer of 2019. Now the three will be coming to the Ohio History Connection, in a panel discussion of women's activism.

April 6, 2016

Gallery 1: My Favorite Object

The Great Collections Experiment is underway! Mary Leiby, Content Developer at the Ohio History Connection, tells us about her favorite object in Gallery 1.

March 10, 2016

Gallery 2–Meet the Team: Katie Poole

The Great Collections Experiment is underway! Let's meet Katie Poole, Manager of Museum Interpretation at the Ohio History Connection, who helped develop one of the three new galleries at the Ohio History Center.