Heritage Park - Winesburg, OH
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silverquill
N 40° 37.045 W 081° 41.629
17T E 441312 N 4496519
Heritage Park is located across from the local fire station in Winesburg, Ohio, where a one room school house and an old log cabin have been restored by the Winesburg Historical Society.
Waymark Code: WMC060
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2011
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This small park was donated to the Winesburg Historical Society in 1990 by the family of Cliff Amos, in his honor. There are are several restored historical buildings that have been placed here, including an 1837 log house donated by the Mathias family and Peter's school.
Even though there is an active local historical society in Winesburg, there seems to be no information about this school. There is an interesting article that mentions Peter's school and its relocation through the efforts of Glenn Wengerd. The log cabin was moved here in 1990 when this corner was developed as Heritage Park, so probably this school was also moved here then.
The school appears to be just one room of a plain white frame constructions with a bell mounted in a small pointed belfry on top.
WINESBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY
This pioneer log house was
originally built one mile
east of Winesburg by the
Marker family in 1837.
The building was donated to
the Winesburg Historical Society
by the Mathias family in memory of
Wilbert and Vera Mathias
and was reconstructed on
this site in 1990.
Winesburg is located in Holmes County, the heart of Ohio's Amish country near Millersburg, the county seat. It is probably best known, however, as the title town of the collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson in 1919, entitled Winesburg, Ohio, although he never lived in here. He did live in the small town of Clyde, Ohio, at wine time, however.