Summer 2021 Newsletter
Click the link below to view the Summer 2021 BCHS Newsletter. Featured in this issue is the return of summer programs, Members Only events, and much more! Summer 2021
Summer Hours
The BCHS is now operating on our summer hours schedule. We are open Tuesday - Friday 10-3:00 and Saturday 9-2:00.
Spring 2021 Newsletter
Click the link below to view the Spring 2021 BCHS Newsletter. Featured in this issue is the dedication our the arbor, Multi-generational summer program information, new exhibits, and much more! Spring 2021
BCHS Winter 2021 Newsletter
Click the link below to view the Winter 2021 BCHS Newsletter. Featured in this issue is our Annual Report, 2020 Award winners, updates on the "Butler Boys" Flag, and much more! Winter 2021
BCHS Fall 2020 Newsletter
Click the link below to read our Fall 2020 Newsletter. Featured in this issue is our award winning Driving Tours, updates on the Emma Ritchie renovations, The Civil War flag restoration project, and much more! Fall 2020
Virtual Winter Lecture Series
Join us for our Winter Lecture Series via Zoom Meetings. To register please call (513-896-9930) or email (info.bchistoricalsociety.com). Links will be emailed out the day prior to the lecture date. Topics will be as follows: January 28th: "Spanish Influenza in Butler County" February 25th: "George W. White, Butler County Portrait Painter" March 25th: "Groundhogs, April
Let Women Vote: Butler County’s Fight for Suffrage
The long struggle to gain the vote for women started in the first half of the 19th Century and ended with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Butler County women joined in this fight at the beginning of the 20th Century. Women's clubs, church groups, and other staged events organized by local suffrage
Stay Safe Summer Multigenerational Program – Recycling in Pioneer Times
Join us for our second instalment of the Stay Safe Summer Multigenerational Programs. BCHS Docent Ed Creighton, on location from his farm, teaches how recycling was done in the Pioneer times. Click the link below, or access the video from our new YouTube channel. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/W0R9j4d5aRo
Stay Safe Summer Multigenerational Program- 1800’s Medicine
The first of the 2020 Stay Safe Summer Multigenerational Summer programs will cover the topic of 1800's Medicine. https://youtu.be/GMxV2ZFxCq8
“Lest We Forget” Decoration / Memorial Day Vintage Postcard Collection
"Lest We Forget" In 1868, General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR: a fraternal organization of Union veterans who severed in the American Civil War), declared May 30, 1868 as a national day of remembrance for those who died in the fight to preserve the Union. Known as