High Springs Museum is open the first and third Saturdays, 1 to 4 and Sundays, 1 to 4 of the month
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High Springs Museum is a nonprofit historical museum in beautiful downtown High Springs, Florida
The High Springs Museum will be closed this Saturday, February 17th and Sunday, February 18th, 2024 due to illness of volunteers. Please contact the museum's email address for further questions about the High Springs Historical Society Museum. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, we plan to be open the weekend of March 2nd and March 3rd, 2024, 1 PM to 4 PM each of those days.
The High Springs Museum will be closed December 16th & December 17th, 2023. The Museum will re-open on January 6th, 2024 at 1 PM till 4 PM and also January 7th, 2024 from 1 PM to 4 PM. Wishing each and everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy Joyous New Year.
April 29 and 30th is Pioneer days in High Springs
Come and see us in the old school building and the Trains will be running in the Santa Fe room as well as the Museum .
We also have shirts for sale with the Museum logo on them. Hope to see you then. 
Some members of the High Springs Historical Society where at the Oleno State Park chili cook off on Saturday April 8th with a model train exhibit
On April 8th The High Springs Historical Society will be at Oleno State park running model trains for their annual chili cookoff. We will be located in the log cabin.Come and see us while you're tasting the chili.
Come and join us this evening for our historians speaking about the Florida and local railroads.
We start at 7PM March 30th at the old school building, site of the High Springs Museum.
It's free admission, donations appreciated.
This is Benjamin our young friend who is one of our volunteers along with his family, helping us at the High Springs museum.
He is holding a airplane hanger model that he assembled for our diorama.
Come and join us on Thursday evening at 7PM at our Museum to hear two train historians, Jonny Nelson and John Manley talk about the history of the Florida and local railroads in our area.
Free admission donations appreciated.
How Great Is this for some history of High Springs.
The 1941 high school football team. Their colors were purple and gold, the SANDSPURS and they played in bare feet in the earlier years. They had a reunion in 2000. The bottom left, Loman Beville became a manager of the Atlantic Coastline Railroad.
Do any of you know any other people pictured?
Charles Poindexter has been collecting acres of racing automobiles for many years
It was a pleasure speaking to him today at the Walldogs festival.
High Springs had three race tracks at one time,many years ago.
The mural about racing is really cool.
The High Springs Historical Society will be on the green today and tomorrow for the Walldogs festival.Our museum is open today and tomorrow.Come and see us. How about joining our non profit volunteer organization and have some fun with us, sharing the history of High Springs and our surrounding area.
We have our shirts for sale. We can order different color and type of shirts for you.
HIGH SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
TRAIN MUSEUM
UPCOMING ACTIVITY DATES
WALLDOGS DIVE INTO HIGH SPRINGS
MARCH 24TH-26TH FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY
ART FAIR ON THE GREEN
NEXT TO THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MARCH 30TH 7 PM
JONNY NELSON AND JOHN MANLEY
LOCAL HISTORIANS TO SPEAK ABOUT FLORIDA RAILROADS AND THE HIGH SPRINGS RAILYARD
SANTA FE ROOM IN THE HIGH SPRINGS OLD SCHOOL BUILDING BEHIND CITY HALL
23760 NW 187TH AVE
FREE ADMISSION DONATIONS APPRECIATED
BECOME A MEMBER AND A VOLUNTEER
[email protected]
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The High Springs Historical Society will be running model trains in the log cabin. Stop by and see us.
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Hi everyone.
Here are some dates for our High Springs Historical Society future activities.
March 25th and 26 we will have a booth at the Walldogs dive into Spring Festival. the museum will be open that weekend.
Thursday March 30th at 7 PM in the Santa Fe room inside the old school building, behind city hall. A history of Florida and local High Springs railroads by Jonny Nelson and John Manley.
Free admission.
Saturday April 8th at Oleno State Park hwy 441 north
Oleno Ole Chili Cookoff , starting at 10 AM.
We will have our trains running and historical displays set up in the log cabin next to the dinning hall.
The Museum will be open April 1st and 2nd and 15th and 16th.
Pioneer days: open April 29th and 30th and we will have a booth outside as well.
In May we will have another local speaker talking about growing up and living in High Springs.
Thanks everyone for supporting our local history through The High Springs Historical Society.
If you would like to support our non-profit organization, volunteer operated, you can mail a check to our PO BOX or contribute on PayPal or stop in and see us. Your donations are greatly appreciated.
Don Decker President
On Thursday March 30th at 7:00 pm,the High Springs Historical Society will have an event in the old school building ,the site of our museum in High Springs. We are featuring two local railroad historians. They will speak about Florida railroads, and the High Springs area railyard and what the Atlantic Coast Line rail road was to High Springs.
There will be no admission charge to come in and attend our event but all donations are welcome. Hope to see you here more to follow later.
Look! Up in the air! It wasn't a bird or a plane. It was the dedicated crew who will be cleaning and maintaining our city water tower for the next few weeks. This will include a fresh new paint job and lettering!
Happy Birthday Florida 🎁
On March 3, 1845 Florida became the 27th state.
Image: Postcard from the 1880s featuring Florida with a population of less than 270,000 and “winter resorts”
When approaching railroad crossings, always remember to wait, look both ways before crossing and follow the signs and signals.
Hello everyone.
The High Springs Historical Society is having our monthly meeting on Tuesday March 7th. We are including a covered dish fellowship meal, starting at 6 PM and then having our members meeting at 7 PM.
You can come and see what The Historical Society is all about.
We have a number of events planned for this year and will be adding more.
We are always looking for volunteers to help with the operation of our museum and upcoming events like the upcoming art walk in March and Pioneer Days in April.
Our meetings are held in the old school building behind The High Springs City hall, the site of our museum.
Don Decker, President
contact us at [email protected].
One of the great diesel locomotives the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad used for regular service.
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This picture from the Alachua County Library District's Heritage Collection is "looking north on Main St from 1st Street in High Springs. On the left, front to back: A dry goods store, grocery store, cleaners, another dry goods store, Priest’s 5 & Dime, and another grocery store. On the right, front to back: A Chevrolet dealership, bank, the post office, the Opera House, and Skeets Corner."
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Message from the 2023 President of the High Springs Historical Society, Don Decker:
February 6th, 2023
Hello everyone,
I am sending this note to introduce myself to our community of High Springs and our surrounding area and the state of Florida.
I’ve been involved with the High Springs Historical Society Inc and train museum for a few years. I have enjoyed meeting people and spending time in the museum and learning about the history of how the railroad, specifically the Atlantic Coast line Railroad formed by Henry Plant was the major part of forming and growing what is High Springs. The railroad had an enormous maintenance yard to service many steam engines and train cars for 100 years.
Some of the things that I’ll be working on as President is to bring awareness of the Historical Society and planning activities such as family day on specific Saturdays that we’ll have with some surprises for kids.
Pioneer Days in April we will have an additional room with model trains running and a table outside to greet people to our museum and have our newly designed T shirts. Other things we will have are guest speakers to talk about the railroads, the springs and other topics about local history and education. We will also have fundraisers and many activities we will be involved with.
To accomplish these things, I need your help to come and join us to volunteer for our activities and become a member of our Historical Society.
Our next members meeting is February 7th at 7PM, and future meetings will be on the first Tuesday of the month at the old school building behind city hall in High Springs. We will also have covered dish fellowships every quarter, the next one in March. I hope to see and meet you.
Also, we can use your financial help. Donations are gratefully accepted.
The mission of the High Springs Historical Society, Inc Railroad Museum
Is dedicated to preserving all the history of the Railroad and Historic Downtown.
The High Springs Historical Society Inc. Railroad Museum Collects photographs, artifacts, documents and trains.
We have a diorama to display what the High Springs rail yard and city looked like for 100 years.
Educational walking and in-class presentation for area school children and adults.
Operation lifesaver presentations for safety on railroad crossing are available. Also, walking tours of the Historic Homes in High Springs are available in the future.
The area is surrounded by beautiful natural springs.
23760 NW 187TH Ave High Springs,Florida,32643
(P.O. Box 1711 High Springs, Fl 32655-1711)
Phone 704-579-0574
President- Don Decker
Please contact us at [email protected]
www.Highspringsmuseum.org.
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High Springs Florida Museum a non-profit is dedicated to preserving history and to education.
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High Springs, FL
32643
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On April 8th The High Springs Historical Society will be at Oleno State park running model trains for their annual chili cookoff. We will be located in the log cabin.Come and see us while you're tasting the chili.
