October 24, 2024 – Annual Historical Society Dinner.  Robert W. Parrott, Union County Historical Society President, will share the story of the most unusual murder in Union County's history.  When the murder happened it made headlines across the country.  Reporters and photographers flocked to Union County to cover the story.  Associated Press articles and radio broadcasts updated the public daily with details of the on-going investigation.  Mr. Parrott will tell the story of this very bizarre incident.  Please join us at 6:00pm at Der Dutchman Restaurant in Plain City.

   

January 1, 2024 – The Union County Historical Society will be part of Richwood Coffee at the Richwood Bank. Please stop in at the Richwood Bank and make your donation. 100% of your donations go to the Union County Historical Society. You do not need to have an account at Richwood Bank to enjoy a drink and support the Union County Historical Society. One $5 donation gets you one Thank You Cup drink. See this flyer for more information.  Please stop in and donation after the first of the year.

   

November 19, 2023 – Union County Historical Society Museum will close for the winter. The Museum will open on May 29, 2024 – see you then!

   

    

October 19, 2023 – Annual Historical Society Dinner. Stephen Badenhop, the Union County Records Manager & Archivist, will explain how Union County came into existence in April 1820. It is a story starting with General Anthony’s Wayne trek along the banks of the Maumee River in 1794, to the carving out of other counties in central Ohio before and after the War of 1812, and ends in the halls of the General Assembly in Columbus as the Era of Good Feelings was come to its end. It is a saga of what it actually took to create a county in frontier Ohio with all the ups, downs and endless possibilities that Ohio went through in the pre-Civil War years, including wars, bust towns, aspiring towns, gambles but most of all politics. The story of Union County is a complicated one where the creation of Union County almost ended up as being the least most likely possibility. Please join us at 6:00pm at Der Dutchman Restaurant in Plain City to hear the story of Union County’s birth.

October 13, 2023 – Fulton Farm Cemetery was documented by the Union County Historical Society. The Fulton Farm Cemetery was first used in the late 1850s for members of the Fulton family along State Route 31 south of Somersville, Ohio. The cemetery was mapped as part of the National Grave Registration Project in 1938. The cemetery was lost in subsequent years and was not document as part of the Union County Grave Registration Project in the early 1980s. Union County Records Manager & Archivist Stephen Badenhop, Union County Historical Society President Robert W. Parrott and Union County Historical Society Trustee Nina Boerger photographed and documented the cemetery.

June 15, 2022 – Richwood Opera House Restoration project receives $150,000 from the Ohio Capital Budget to reinforce the load-bearing area beneath newly stabilized trusses. The Richwood Opera House and Town Hall was erected in 1890 as a community center designed to house the town council chambers, fire department, jail and opera house. The Richardsonian Romanesque styled building served Richwood in all of these capacities for nearly 75 years. In 2001, that last of the municipal offices left the building. In 2021, the Richwood Opera House Restoration Committee has sought to restore the building.