Clermont County Historical Society, Ohio

09/02/2026

Our president, Kelly Wright says:
THIS IS YOUR HISTORY!! TAKE A CLOSE LOOK!

The Clermont County Historical Society's recent move into the Batavia Village Armory has produced a lot of work for us—whew!!--but also some fascinating, rarely viewed artifacts, including stunningly pretty bound volumes chronicling Batavia Village history. These books include a bit of everything, from ledgers to council meeting minutes to school rosters, and range from the late 19th century through the last century. They are absolutely filled to the edges with names, dates, transactions, ordinances, grievances, and just about everything else that was the stuff of daily life here, all written in the most beautiful handwriting you've probably ever seen. The names in their pages? So many of them are still here today in Batavia!! A bunch of the volumes are bound in hand-tooled smooth leather and suede and stamped in gilt,and are objects of great beauty as well as information.

Come explore your family's history through these pages at our open house—A Call to Armory—on Sunday, September 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. The refreshments, music, good company, and history are all free.

The Batavia Armory is located at 65 N. Second St. Batavia OH 45103

08/26/2026

Here's a salute to our hard-working farmers! It's busy this time of year, too!

08/24/2026

Everybody loves a birthday party!

08/21/2026

This sounds great! I love quilts!

Please join us at the 2nd Annual Quilt Show! There's still time to register your quilt if you would like to show your quilts!

08/20/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZeVgBmzgOI&t=8s
Y'all, I've learned that I'm having issues with the link to this program. The link is hiding in my original post, so this time I'm putting the link 1st, see? above? in blue? Hoping that will work better.
Or, you can just click on the title picture?
Please let me know if it opens for you? I promise, you don't have to watch the whole thing.

America's First Veterans Clermont's First Settlers Presentation by...

08/20/2026

Clermont County Historical Society has a facebook channel. So if you missed one of our meetings that you really wanted to attend, you can dial up Facebook, put Clermont County historical Society into their search, and catch up on what you missed.
I did that and there are lots of interesting videos in addition to us, so definitely a score. Check it out!
In the meantime, here I am talking (and talking and talking) about a few of my Revolutionary War veteran friends who came to Clermont County. They had great stories to tell.
Personally, I'm afraid to watch it! It is crazy to watch myself, so tell me what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZeVgBmzgOI&t=8s

08/18/2026

Here are some folks from our Richard Disney collection. Mr. Disney collected old photos and then worked hard to get them identified (you know, what you wish your grandmother would have done before you got that shirtbox full of unidentifiable relatives after she died).
We have a box or two of the actual snapshots he collected. They came to us through Alma Aicholtz Smith, by way of Mrs. Smith's nieces.
If you click on the photo, I'll include the identifecations in the comments.
Once he had the photos in hand and identified, Mr. Disney worked with a photographer to copy them --maybe hundreds of them --to preserve them for all time. These reproductions are organized, identified and placed in albums available to see at the Batavia Branch Library, within the Clermont County Genealogical room. They are definitely worth a special trip to see.