May 24, 2025 May 24, 2025 DECORATION DAY (anticipated)MEMORIAL DAY 11:00 a.m. AT THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 403 MEMORIAL NEW CHESTNUT GROVE CEMETERY PLACING OF THE WREATHS IN HONOR OF THE FALLEN. Two wreaths will be... May 27, 2025
April 15, 2025 DONATIONS In the past year, we have received collections of books, post cards, and the original street sign used on Route 82 in Columbia Station. You may recall the sign from the 50's. We are pretty f... May 27, 2025
1-15-16 DID YOU KNOW? The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8,1815. In May, 1814, General Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson was named commander of Military District No. 7. This was the Mobile-New Orleans... Aug 21, 2024
March 28,2016 March 28, 2016 IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOAN KASKEY JOCKE Mr. and Mrs. Jocke were charter members of the Historical Society of Olmsted Falls. At our meetings Mrs. Jocke would give suggestions and ideas for s... Aug 21, 2024
March 2021 March 2021 For those of us who have been “locked in” through the Corona Virus we thought it wise to interview those who have keep their act together and their minds intact. So we start with Nancy Nick... Aug 21, 2024
November 2021 November 2021, United States Army Air Corps. Louis W. Miller (Lt., U.S. Army Air Corps) is one of the first residents to support the Historical Society of Olmsted Falls. Over the years, he has donated... Aug 21, 2024
December 2021 December 2021, SABRINA: THE TINIEST CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, 2021 On November 4, 2010, we found a four month old kitten living by the rubbish can in East River Park. We took him to the vet and he was in goo... Aug 21, 2024
December 2021 COMMANDER DAVID G. CLARK Commanding Officer, USS SEMMES DDG-18 Long ago on a cool, wet Fall day, we received a letter from Commander Clark. In the letter he said that he, the officers, and crew wanted... Aug 21, 2024
Our Society's New Years Resolution WHO KEEPS US GOING: We would like to thank Barb Wehe and Zoe for their dedication to the work they volunteered to do. BARB BARB has been our treasurer since we were formed. Each year she keeps our rec... Aug 21, 2024
May 2022 MAY 2022, 1787 Northwest Ordinance 1803 Ohio becomes 17th State 2006 Historical Society of Olmsted Falls formed LEAVING ON A JET PLANE! The other day a song was playing on the radio. Time suddenly ... Aug 21, 2024
May 2022 THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces under the command of General Pierre G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, comman... Aug 21, 2024
Decoration Day 2022 DECORATION DAY Saturday, May 28, 2022, (anticipation) MEMORIAL DAY Placing of wreaths in remembrance of the fallen at THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 403 MEMORIAL, New Chestnut Grove Cemetery. (Two wreaths w... Aug 21, 2024