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Come
See Our 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 Special
Events
2013 Open Houses
All buildings will be open
from 1:30 to
4:00 pm
on these dates
Sunday 19 May
Saturday
15 June
Sunday 21 July
Saturday
17 Aug
Sunday 15 Sep
Saturday
19 Oct
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!
Click on
the photos below to learn about the buildings.
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Blacksmith
Shop
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Pioneer
Log Cabin
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The
Sheller House
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The
Carriage Barn
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Mishler
Weaving Mill
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The
Tin Shop
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Lydo Barn Exhibit
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The Historic Church of God
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 Caboose
and Train Station
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The
Spring
House
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Taping
took place at the Society buildings on 7 May 2013.
See
it here.
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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
Some help in researching families
in the Smithville area
Archives
Past
SCHS Newsletter Clippings
Steam
Engine Speeds Through Smithville
Smithville
News from the Past
Please
help identify
the people in the photos.
Smithville
Freshman Class 1927,
other High School Photos, and Burkholder
Family
Number
3 School
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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.
Purpose
of the Society
Membership:
How to Join
See
Map of Smithville Here
Society Programs on the Calendar
Meetings begin
at 7 pm at the Church of God in Smithville unless
otherwise stated
*April 1 "History of Rubbermaid"
with Lyle Gray. Hostess: Lila Smucker
*May 6 "Images of
Smithville" with Dan Kaufman. Hostesses:
Ruth Peterman and Linda Platt.
*June 3
Tour of Victorian House Museum in Millersburg;
eat at Millersburg Hotel at 5 pm followed by tour. Tour
fee $7.00.
*July 1 "Amish Dolls"
with Pat Chambers. Hostesses: Margo Stafford and
Mary Rehm.
*August 5 Tour of Miller Oil and
Gas Museum which is part of County
Line Historical Society: eat at Das
Dutch Essenhaus at 5:00 pm, followed by tour. Tour
fee $2.50.
September,
no meeting.
*October
7 Annual Picnic at Rex & Diane Miller's
home. Starts 5: 30 pm. Program to be announced.
*November 4 "Civil War
Poetess Margaret Junkin Preston" reenacted
by Raylene Hlavaty and sons. Hostess: Nita Downey
*December 2 "SHS Choralettes
and Debonaires", Christmas program.
Special
thanks to the committee: Nita Downey, Kathy Meitzler
and Harlene Steiner.
Other Special Events
2013
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2013
Christmas in the Village
Sat, Dec 7, 6 to 8:30 pm
Sun,
Dec 8, 1:30 to 4 pm
All buildings will be open.
Outside Links
Wayne
County Map Link
Wayne
County Public Library
GenWeb
Site for Wayne County, OH
Wayne
County Historical Society
Ohio
Historical Society
The
Smithville Inn restaurant
The
Barn restaurant
Places
to stay in nearby Wooster |
