SaveOhioHistory.org is a vehicle for history advocates—people who believe history plays an important role in our communities, schools, civic life, and everyday experience—to engage, share, discuss, brainstorm, and motivate around Ohio’s increasingly threatened heritage and cultural resources. These resources make Ohio a place worth living. Organizations like historical societies, libraries, museums, and historic and cultural sites that protect what makes our state special need the input and support of citizens who care about their heritage. This blog, SaveOhioHistory.org, provides a platform for building the relationships that sustain us when our history needs saving. Comments, questions, and ideas are welcomed in order to encourage an ongoing conversation that will advance real and virtual activities to help ensure a future for Ohio’s history.
SaveOhioHistory.org launched in June 2009 in response to a series of significant state funding cuts to many important programs of the Ohio Historical Society. It was meant to activate and inform history advocates across the state as they spread the message that History Matters! to Ohio’s state legislators and the governor. A series of activities, including flash mobs and a rally for history (see the blog archives) captured the energy and attention of Ohioans who care about their communities’ heritage. When the budget was finally settled, our conversations with partners like Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums suggested that the blog could have a longer and more fulfilling life: to be a home base for discussion and sharing when the Ohio history that we love needs saving…and to help us figure out how to save it together.
Does anyone know the history of the historical markers in Ohio that were apparently erected by historical society(s) other than the Ohio Historical Society? The one I know of the at the site of the Millfield Mine Disaster in Athens county and although the 1980 marker states The Ohio Historical Society, they have no record of it. OHS does know os the existance of “several of these throughout the state.” The blackground is generally black instead of brown and they were not manufactured at Sewah Studios. I am a graduate student at Kent State and would appreciate any information.