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On December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy, bringing the United States into the Second World War.  At its peak, the U.S. Armed Forces had […]

Helen Phillips Arnold was born on the 30th of July in Ashland Ohio in 1875 to Mr. David Allison Phillips and Mary Reep Phillips. She lived out her youth in […]

Sumner Levi Palmer was born in Sullivan, Ohio in 1843 to Zurah and Lauretta Palmer. He was held as a prisoner of war by the Confederates at Andersonville Prison in Georgia, […]

The Ashland County Historical Society recently transferred the ownership of their 1946 Seagrave Firetruck to the Whitmore Car Museum in Ashland, Ohio. The museum felt it was important to keep […]

Did you know the museum is in possession of a very impressive paperweight collection? Many of our paperweights belonged to Helen Myers Miller (daughter of F.E. and Alavesta Myers, and […]

Over 500 items were donated to the ACHS over the past year. This requires a lot of time and work from our staff to make sure everything is documented and […]

We all know it now as the Uniontown Brewing Company, but Ashland citizens once knew the building at 105 West Main Street as the home of a few other very successful businesses over the years.

Despite the current stay at home orders and social distancing practices, a nice walk to get out of the house and breathe some fresh air is something we can still do. Many locals routinely walk at the Ashland Cemetery, and it’s certainly an interesting place to take a stroll and educate yourself about local history.

Armistice Day, now known as Veterans Day, was originally designated as a holiday in the United States to honor the end of WWI.  The armistice was signed between the allies […]