Bring your phone or tablet when you visit Highland House and enjoy our recently updated Self-Guided Tour. Click on the button above to begin!

LOG CABIN COOKOUT is coming! September 11 at Highland House! Great meal for only a donation! AND there will be an auction! Plan to attend now!

2021
GHOST WALK
is coming!
Sep 28 - 6pm
Hillsboro Cemetery

Mourning Emma
Ghosts visiting this year will be MOURNING EMMA (see above), who will tell us about mourning practices of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Also visiting will be:
GRANVILLE BARRERE
GEORGE BEECHER
BYRDE AYRES
EMILE GRAND-GIRARD
ANNA CATHERINE "KITTY" NEWBY
Remember to meet at the chapel and bring a lawn chair. We want everyone to be able to attend, therefore the Ghosts will do the walking and the visitors may sit. After all, those Ghosts have been still for many years and they need the exercise!
To help protect everyone, please wear a mask and socially distance!

NEW in our MUSEUM SHOP
A recounting through photos and two diaries kept during the 1901 Perry Relief Expedition!     $17.50

OUR LATEST PROJECT

A comprehensive look at Black History of Highland County! This is in production now. Too soon to predict a release date.
For further information, contact Kati Burwinkel, Myra Phillips or John Glaze.

ANNOUNCING
CIVIL WAR STORE CARDS
of
Hillsboro, Ohio
by Tara Beery
50 pages, color photos though out
only $10.00 plus tax

Newsletter Index now available! (hover over "Newsletter" to the left and click on "Archive")

NEW IN OUR MILITARY ROOM

Part of HCHS Mission is not only to preserve local history, but also to EDUCATE the community about our history. To this end, we have a new exhibit in our MILITARY ROOM featuring a TV with educational videos about those from our county who served our country.

WE ARE NOW ON OUR
3rd PRINTING! Thank you for your interest in our
new book!

THE HILLSBORO STORY
is on the shelf now!
With the help of Elsie Ayres' step-grandson and permission of her daughter, we took her 1957 booklet and have increased its size and number of pages. Updated with 2017 information as well as many rarely-seen photographs, this is sure to become a favorite. Elsie's book was originally produced for the Sesqui-Centennial and can rarely be found these days. Stop at Highland House to purchase a copy or you can order online (postage applies). Click on "Online Ordering" on the sidebar above.
$22.95 plus tax
(HCHS Members save 10%)

NOW AVAILABLE!
Add this great documentary to your DVD library! This is the positive and uplifting story of mothers who stood up for their children's education. This was the first northern test case following Brown v. Board of Education.

$20 donation
Museum Shop at Highland House or purchase online here

Looking for a way to "PAY IT FORWARD" to your community? Consider becoming a volunteer at Highland House! We use volunteers as GREETERS, CLERKS in our Museum Shop (special training required), behind the scenes work, such as reframing photographs and documents, marking objects (part of our ongoing cataloging project), assisting with mailings such as our newsletter, and general cleaning and straightening. You might like to become an costumed interpreter in our Log Cabin or love gardening and would like to share in the work of keeping our beautiful grounds lovely. You can call the office at Highland House - 393-3392, or fill out the form on this site (click on "Volunteers" in the side panel for more information or to find the form).

Have you registered your KROGER PLUS CARD listing HCHS as your charity of choice? This costs you nothing, nor does it take any of your fuel points! BUT, Kroger will share part of their charitable giving with us! We currently have 6 folks helping us and our last check from Kroger was over $50.00. Please help and register your Kroger Plus Card Charitable Organization as HCHS!  THANK-YOU!

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