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This year, we lost two valued members of our Board whose dedication and leadership made a lasting impact on our organization and community.Meagan Bahlke brought passion and a deep belief in our purpose. Her love for history carried through to the HEC as...

This summer, we are introducing the Ohio Valley Folkways Symposium Sessions. From 1-4 p.m. on various Sunday's, joins us for a powerful afternoon of storytelling, history, art, and poetry, hosted on the grounds of Historic Eleutherian College....

Historic Eleutherian College will host its annual Fall Gathering on October 18 from 10 AM to 4 PM. Join us for tours, historic programming, art and music!Stay tuned for programming updates! ..

Abraham Walton Sr. was born in 1777 in Amherst, New Hampshire, then still a colony, to William and Hannah Littlehale Walton. He married Mary “Polly” Hutchinson, born in Amherst in 1778 to Ebenezer and Hannah Littlefield Hutchinson, in Oxford County, Maine, in 1799.  ..

186 years ago on January 5, a meeting was held in a public schoolhouse on Neil’s Creek in Jefferson County, Indiana.1 The purpose of the meeting was to form “an anti-slavery society,” according to Benjamin  Hoyt, one of the founders of the Neil’s Creek...