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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. ..

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....

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...

Thanks to the grant funding received this past summer, the roof near the bell tower has been repaired and it no longer leaks during rainstorms.That has allowed the board to focus on other projects that are on the “To...

Visitors to the college in June this year included local photographer Cindy Porter, whose “United Colors” project is comprised of photos featuring her two daughters and their friends as models to illustrate and celebrate the diversity found in Madison and Jefferson County. While the summer-time open house...