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 Smithville Community Historical Society, P.O. Box 12, Smithville, OH   44677
Last updated 7 July 2009

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.  
Send requests to the email below. 
glhold@ameritech.net

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

1:30 to 4:00 year round.  Please visit!
381 East Main St, Smithville, OH

Society Meeting

Smithville Historical Society Events

2009 Open Houses
All buildings will be open
from 1:30 to 4:00 pm
on these Sundays
[See also Special Events hours]

June 14  

Aug 9
See Other
Special Events

Oct [10],11
See Other Special Events

June 28

Aug 23

Oct 25

July [10], [11], 12
See
Other Special Events

Sep 13

 

July 26

Sep 27

 

Thanks to all the Volunteers who make this possible!

See [July] Heritage Days schedule on the right side of the page.


 Archives
Some help in researching families
in the Smithville area

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

New 25 July '08
Smithville Freshman Class 1927,
other High School Photos, and Burkholder Family

New 29 July '08
Number 3 School


 


  

Blacksmith Shop
Blacksmith Shop

The Cabin
Pioneer Log Cabin

The Sheller House
 The Sheller House

The Mishler Weaving Mill
Mishler Weaving Mill

Carriage Barn
The Carriage Barn

Lydo Barn Exhibit
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The Historic Church of God
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  Check this out!  Our special events
will also be listed at
WayneCountyEvents.com

Links to Map & other Wayne Co. sites

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

 

Carriage Barn

The Mishler Weaving Mill

 

Blacksmith Shop

 

The Cabin

 

The Sheller House



Q
uestions go to glhold@ameritech.net


 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.  
  

Other Special Events

July

Smithvillle Heritage Days
July 10, 11 and 12. 
Our hours for this event:

            Friday, July 10  - a couple tours of the Pioneer Village will be scheduled and Thymbles will be having a quilt show

            Saturday, July 11 from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and

            Sunday, July 12 from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.   (our usual hours for open house)

August

Signing In God's Name (S.I.G.N.) will present The Gospel in Sign

at The Historic Church of God on Sunday, August 9 at 4:30 p.m.

The Church is at 147 North Milton Street, Smithville. 

Donations will be taken to cover expenses.

The S.I.G.N. Ministry Choir of the First Friends Church, Canton, Ohio

will present the Gospel in Sign.  The 25 choir members will share the love

of Christ through sign and song.  Deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing

persons are all welcome and encouraged to attend. 

Sign interpretation will be provided.

The Historic Church of God is handicap accessible. 

October

Wayne County Farm Tour:  

                        The Tour this year is in our section of the county and Smithville Historical Society is one of the stops.

        Saturday, October 10 from 11 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and

        Sunday, October 11 from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. 

December

2009 Christmas in the Village
Saturday, Dec 5:  6 to 8 pm
Sunday, Dec 6:  1:30 to 4 pm

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