This year Arcanum Wayne Trail Historical Society, located at 123 West George in Arcanum, has collaborated with the Ohio American 250 to commemorate the United States Semiquincentennial which is celebrating our 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. AWTHS has planned programs and events for this year around this theme. We encourage
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Henry St Clair…Store, Home and Memorial Hall
Store photo from “You’re Probably From Greenville, Oh if…..”Facebook page. One of the People of Darke County on the DAR America-250 Educational Panels. From:”The History of Darke County…” by W.H. McIntosh, 1880. Copied from Find-a-Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117840091/henry-st_clair “HENRY ST. CLAIR, merchant ; Greenville ; dealer in groceries, provisions, produce, glass and queensware, etc., etc. Greenville, like
Darke County Revolutionary War Patriots
As part of the America-250 Anniversary, AWTHS honors the nation’s celebration with displays, patriots bio’s in readable form, and a map with all the patriots names and cemetery locations where some are actually buried and some where memorial stones are placed in their memory. Here we offer the complete brochure-tour package for your reading which
November 2025 at AWTHS
November is a busy month at AWTHS (Arcanum Wayne Trail Historical Society) with three main events you will want to Save the Date for. Those include November 1, November 13 and November 28-29. November 1 from 9-noon are Open Hours at AWTHS. Special display is the American 250 Traveling Educational Panels, sponsored by the local
The Ivester Family Estate
In looking at early plat maps, we see on the 1875 map 143 acres around where the Ivester house-farm was located. In 1888 it looks like his land has expanded east across N. Main Street in the area of the Painter Creek. (Ivester heirs) This is in no way a complete deed search or study.
H. A. Kepner
A Biographical history of Darke County, Ohio: compendium of national biography, Lewis Publishing Company, 1900, Google Books.“HARRISON A. KEPNER. Harrison A. Kepner was born May 14, 1836, in the old stone house which was the home of his parents at the time they resided in Perry county, Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen began teaching