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HEC board member Emeka Koren, above, far left, brought 25 of his science students from Madison Consolidated High School to help with spring cleaning inside the Eleutherian College building. The students swept floors, washed windows, and finished other chores...

It was a cold, but sunny morning for our first HEC Holiday Brunch, held Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. Members enjoyed delicious quiche, salads and deserts as we honored Brook Reindollar, Board Member Emeritus, who, after his mother’s sudden death, remained determined to preserve this incredible landmark that Dottie Reindollar...

While the COVID-19 pandemic closed the doors of theHistoric Eleutherian College building in Lancaster, IN, to its summertime open-house tours and fall festival, the HEC Board of Directors has been hard at work to get much-needed funding for preserving the pre-Civil War-era building and telling its story.HEC Board President...

When children attended the first day of classes at the new Lancaster Elementary School in 1887, they arrived prepared to learn to read and write and do arithmetic. They would learn about President Grover Cleveland and Indiana Governor Isaac P. Gray - both in office at the time. ..

Today the college building is a National Historic Landmark and maintained by a volunteer board of directors. Our vision is “To raise awareness that education and freedom are the foundations of a flourishing civil society.” The year 2020 has shown that now, as much as in the 1850s,...