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
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Events
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2009 Open Houses
All buildings will be open
from 1:30 to
4:00 pm
on these Sundays
[See also Special Events
hours]
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June 14
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Aug 9
See Other
Special
Events
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Oct [10],11
See
Other Special Events
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June 28
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Aug 23
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Oct 25
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July [10],
[11], 12
See
Other Special Events
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Sep 13
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July 26
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Sep 27
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Thanks to all the Volunteers who
make this possible!
See Other Special Events
Other Special Events
December
Christmas
Concert
Orrville Community Band
Dec 13 at 2:30
pm
At the Historic Church of God
147 North Milton
St
Smithville, OH
Donations accepted to meet expenses.
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2009 Christmas in the Village
Saturday,
Dec 5: 6 to 8 pm
Sunday, Dec 6: 1:30
to 4 pm
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Blacksmith
Shop
Pioneer
Log Cabin
The
Sheller House
Mishler
Weaving Mill
The
Carriage Barn
Lydo Barn Exhibit
no picture
yet
The Historic Church of God
no picture
yet
Check this out! Our
special events
will also be listed at
WayneCountyEvents.com
Links
to Map & other Wayne Co. sites
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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
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Questions 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.
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Archives
Some help in researching families
in the Smithville area
Links
to Members' Sites
Past
Newsletter Clippings
Steam
Engine Speeds Through Smithville
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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Smithville
Community Historical Society, P.O. Box 12, Smithville, OH 44677