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 Smithville Community Historical Society, P.O. Box 12, Smithville, OH   44677
Last updated 24 Jan 2012     See new 2012 schedule for Open Houses below.  See new Fee information.

Welcome to the
Smithville Community Historical Society
online.

Purpose of the Society
Membership: How to Join
 See Map of Smithville Here

Come See Our Buildings..
Click on the photos to the right to learn about the buildings
Group Tours can be arranged.
Group Tour Fee information is available by request.
Send requests to the email below. 
glhold@wowway.com

Other than the group tours,
the Mishler Weaving Mill is open
to visitors on Wednesday afternoons

1:30 to 4:00 year round.  No Fee.
Please visit!
381 East Main St, Smithville, OH

Smithville Historical Society Events

2012 Open Houses
All buildings will be open
from 1:30 to 4:00 pm
on these Sundays
May 20
June 17 
July 15
Aug 19
Sep 16
Oct 21
Open House Fees
The Mishler Mill is free but there is a charge for the Pioneer Village for non-members.
Fees are:
$3 per adult
$1 per child grades K to 12
$7 for a family of 2 adults and 2 or more children 

Thanks to all the Volunteers who make this possible!


Other Special Events

    ______________________
2012 Christmas in the Village
Sat, Dec 1, 6 to 8 pm
Sun, Dec 2, 1:30 to 4 pm
All buildings will be open.

 


  Click on the photos.

Blacksmith Shop
Blacksmith Shop

The Cabin
Pioneer Log Cabin

The Sheller House
 The Sheller House

Carriage Barn
The Carriage Barn

  Check this out!  Our special events
will also be listed at
WayneCountyEvents.com

Links to Map & other Wayne Co. sites


Archives
Some help in researching families
in the Smithville area

Links to Members' Sites 
Past Newsletter Clippings
Steam Engine Speeds Through Smithville

The Weaver
by Edgar A. Guest

The patter of rain on the roof,
The glint of the sun on the rose;
Of life, these the warp and the woof,
The weaving that everyone knows.
Now grief with its consequent tear,
Now joy with its luminous smile;
The days are the threads of the year--
Is what I am weaving worth while?

What pattern have I on my loom?
Shall my bit of tapestry please?
Am I working with gray threads of gloom?
Is there faith in the figures I seize?
When my fingers are lifeless and cold,
And the threads I no longer can weave
Shall there be there for men to behold
One sign of the things I believe?

God sends me the gray days and rare,
The threads from his bountiful skein,
And many, as sunshine, are fair.
And some are as dark as the rain.
And I think as I toil to express
My life through the days slipping by,
Shall my tapestry prove a success?
What sort of a weaver am I?

Am I making the most of the red
And the bright strands of luminous gold?
Or blotting them out with the thread
By which all men's failure is told?
Am I picturing life as despair,
As a thing men shall shudder to see,
Or weaving a bit that is fair
That shall stand as the record of me?
 

Published in 1917 in the book 
of his poems called Just Folks

 Click on the photos.

The Mishler Weaving Mill
Mishler Weaving Mill

NEW
The Tin Shop
 The Tin Shop


Lydo Barn Exhibit

Historic Church of God
The Historic Church of God


 On Saturday April 26, 2003  
a Dedication was held for
The Ohio Bicentennial Historical Marker
at the John Mishler Weaving Mill in Smithville
and the Grand Opening of
the Historical Society Reception Center
at 391½ East Main Street [State Route 585]
Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio.  
 

 Please help identify
the people in the photos.
Smithville Freshman Class 1927,
other High School Photos, and Burkholder Family

New 29 July '08
Number 3 School

 

 

 

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