GREENVILLE – Fort GreeneVille Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution received a Trillium Local Activity Grant from the America 250-Ohio Commission for its America 250 project titled “America 250 Darke County Traveling Educational Exhibit.” The chapter also received a grant from NSDAR Stars and Stripes America 250! Celebration.
The project represents Darke County in museum-grade educational exhibit panels. The panels illustrate the America 250! Ohio theme “Past, Present, Future”. The exhibit will display different aspects of Darke County. The panels include Frontier, Patriots buried in Darke County, People, Places, Economy, and Villages.
The display is now available to all Darke County schools, libraries, museums, the Great Darke County Fair, organizations, and any other public display opportunities in 2025 through 2026, and far into the future. The exhibit will also be available outside of the county to those interested. Our vision includes displaying at our state capital and beyond.
The display consists of three double-sided panels. Thanks to Greenville Lowe’s, the panels will be surrounded by control ropes/stanchion posts.
The display will add a very nice Darke County educational addition to events, meetings, and programs.
The panels consist of QR codes that direct visitors to websites that give additional information and research places, as well as sources, for further research. The frontier panel is directed to the Garst Museum; the Revolutionary Patriots to the Arcanum Wayne Trail Historical Society website; the places panel to the Darke County Visitor Bureau; the People panel again to AWTHS (Arcanum Historical Society); and the towns and villages to the Darke County Commissioners.
A special thank you to the Garst Museum and Darke County Historical Society in Greenville, Ohio, as well as the Greenville Public Library, Genealogy Society.
