April 10th – May 8th, 2023 Virtual Reality Exhibit Tickets are free, but reservations are required. Please indicate the number of tickets desired along with the date and time. Visitors may park at Luhrs Center and meet their docent in the Luhrs Center lobby at...
Friday February 25th & Saturday February 26th, 2022 African American History is American History Featuring Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass and tour of related historic sites in Franklin County. Speeches by Frederick Douglass Douglass’ speeches give a...
Thursday November 18th, 2021 * 7:00 PM Ross Hetrick His presentation ” Meet Thaddeus Stevens, a champion of freedom and equality “. Thaddeus Stevens was the most powerful congressman during and after the Civil War. Ross Hetrick was born in Waynesboro, VA...
The Franklin County Historical Society ongoing exhibit, Votes for Women: A Movement Toward Equality. The exhibit commemorates the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of...
The Cumberland Valley impressed Thaddeus Stevens, reminding him of the rural beauty of Danville, Vermont, where he was born in 1792. Later, when Stevens purchased land to begin an ironworks, he called it Caledonia because it reminded him of his boyhood home. As a...
