Flea Market Returns Friday and Saturday September 27 & 28

Lovely items for sale at the Flea Market

The quarterly Flea Market hosted by WCHS will take place this Friday and Saturday, September 27-28, at the Lebanon Conference and Banquet Center, formerly the old post office.

 

Hours for the Flea Market are 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Friday and 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday. Admission is free. 

 

In addition, the Lebanon Garden Club will sell raffle tickets for their entirely handmade quilt on Saturday.   A group of Lebanon City School parents will also sell specialty coffee in the bean and home baked goods for on Saturday during the Flea Market. They are working to raise money to send their children to Space Camp.

Come browse our wares of furnishings, objets d'art, decor, books, and more.  This is a great opportunity to do some early Christmas shopping. 





Downton Abbey Comes to America: Special Exhibit at WCHS

Image courtesy of PBS

Inspired by Lady Grantham

Fans of the international  hit series on PBS, Downton Abbey, love the show for many reasons: the class issues that arise between the cast of characters from post-Edwardian England, including the Crawley family and their servants; the spotlight on post-World War I history and interwar history from a British viewpoint; and, not surprisingly, the beautiful period fashions worn by the women on the show.

Inspired by the fashions on Downton Abbey, the Warren County History Center has a new special Exhibit, Downton Abbey Comes to America.  Mallory Hellenthal, an intern from Miami University, was in charge of mounting the exhibit this spring with the help of Jenny Gauche, one of our dedicated volunteers.

Featuring dresses and fashions generously donated by ladies from the King family, founders of the King Powder Company, this exhibit showcases clothing and accessories purchased by the King sisters during their travels throughout Europe and America from 1912-1928.

This special exhibit spans both the first floor and the second floor of the Warren County History Center.  Admission to the Warren County History Center is $5.00 for adults, $4.50 for seniors 65+, and $3.50 for students ages 5-18.  Our hours of operation are Tuesday-Friday, 10 am - 4 pm and Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm.  We are closed Sundays, Mondays, and holidays.

For more information about admission to the Warren County History Center, please click here.

Glendower Gardens Well Tended by Local Master Gardeners

Volunteers from the Warren Couny Master Gardener Association

The large gardens and picturesque trees at our very own Glendower Mansion have been under the devoted care of several local volunteers from the Warren County Master Gardener Association in recent weeks.  Several garden beds have been weeded and the day lilies on both sides of the allee have been raked and tidied up for the fall.

One of the biggest jobs that this group has tackled has been cleaning out the existing drain tiles that lie on the east and west side of the lily-lined allee.  This time-consuming job has several steps: uncovering the stone tiles by shoveling the dirt that lies over the tiles into a wheel barrow; taking the weeds and grass out of the just-shoveled dirt; pulling out the stone tiles themselves and shoveling the just weeded dirt into where the tiles were; and lastly putting the stone tiles back in place back on top of the weeded dirt.  

This method was the brainchild of Janet Maney who uncovered the west side of the drain tile; Dan Pawlowski is using this same method to uncover the east side of the drain tile.

All of the large trees in the front of Glendower were trimmed by Jim and Rae Lynn Beck. 

We at WCHS are thankful to all of the dedicated volunteers from the Warren County Master Gardener Association who have given their time this season to the hard work of upkeeping and beautifying the gardens at Glendower.  We are so grateful for their green thumbs!

Lebanon Cemetery Tour Sept 13 and 14

Our annual Lantern Light Cemetery Tour of Lebanon Cemetery will take place Friday evening, September 13 from 7 to 9 pm and repeats on Saturday evening at the same time. The Glendower Historic Characters will be on hand to portray our dear departed citizens of the past.

Liz Grauwelman as Lucy Boake and Nate Grauwelman as Rigdon Williams
 

Our Historian,  John Zimkus will be leading the tour which begins at the grave of the famous opera star, Laura Bellini and continues into the Civil War section where you meet civil war nurse Amanda Stokes and civil war soldiers Rigdon Williams and Durbin Ward. The tour travels on through what we call the Gilded Age section where you meet famed educator Alfred Holbrook and Golden Lamb ghost Sarah Stubbs. We finish the tour with a visit from a Shaker sister. In all, guests will meet 20 of Lebanon's most famous citizens of the past.

 We limit the number of guests to 40 and there are still plenty of spaces left for each night. The cost is just $20 per person. You can purchase on line or by calling 513-932-1817 or visit the museum at 105 S. Broadway, Lebanon, OH 45036.