Our Museum is open for monthly events which are advertised on this page. The Pickerington-Violet Township Historical Society was organized in 1987. Our Museum is located in the former Carnegie Library which was built in 1916 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. Pickerington was one of the smallest communities in the United States to receive such a grant. When a new, larger library was constr
ucted on Opportunity Way in 1993, the Library Board donated the Carnegie Library to the city of Pickerington with the stipulation that a museum be created and maintained. Since then, the Pickerington-Violet Township Historical Society has filled the main level of the former Carnegie Library with a collection of local historic artifacts and memorabilia including one of two original town pumps, household items, vintage music makers, business signage and equipment, photographs, cemetery records, and more. In addition, a reference section gives visitors an opportunity to research local written history, and a gift shop offers for sale souvenir note/postcards, prints, china, and historic books and documents. In addition to serving as our Historical Society's meeting room, our Museum's lower level showcases photographs of Pickerington-Violet Township high school graduating classes from 1909-1981. It also contains school furnishings, artifacts and photos from one-room schools in the 1800s to present day Pickerington Local School District grade and high schools.
