The Heritage Center explores Clark County’s national impact from the development of the national road in the 19th century to local industrial innovation in the 20th century and highlights the participation of local citizens in America’s military conflicts from the Civil War to the present.
The National Road Gallery
Clash of Cultures
Opening of Ohio
Agriculture and Industry
In Service to the Nation
Archaeology of Clark County
From Clark County to Washington, D.C.: Service in the Nation’s Capital
Asa Bushnell – Ohio Governor and Springfielder
Due to COVID-19 and continuing recovery from a burst pipe in 2019, we do not have a set exhibit schedule for our temporary exhibits.
A new exhibit honoring Hermann Carr, Springfield’s resident magician and founder of Safety City as Officer Carr, is now open in the Noonan Family Community Gallery.
The exhibit follows Carr’s career as a magician for more than 65 years. Visitors to the exhibit can see many of Carr’s personal effects and tools of the trade. All of the materials and images in the exhibit came from Hermann’s personal magic room and scrapbook. The Clark County Historical Society is grateful to the Carr family for the loan of these artifacts!
The exhibit will be up through the end of the year.
Explore Past Exhibits:
- Born in Clark County Series: Scarff’s Nursery (July – September 2015)
- Born in Clark County Series: Woeber Mustard (January – March 2015)
- Born in Clark County Series: Brain Lumber (April – June 2015)
- Before the Bricks Fell: The Glory Days on Crowell Collier Publishing (May – October 2015)
- White Wedding: Myth and Reality (May – August 2015)
- Springfield in the Civil War (February – October 2014)
- A Look Back at Clark County’s African American History (January – February 2013)
- Newsweek 1983: Rediscovering the American Dream (February – April 2013)
- A Look Back at Clark County’s African American History (February – March 2012)
- Ohio and the Civil War – 150 Years Later – Ohio Historical Society Traveling Exhibit (April – May 2012)
- Stuff that Scares the Staff – Scary Things from the Historical Society Collections (October 2012)
- Memorial Hall Time Capsule Exhibit (September – November 2011)
- New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music – Traveling Exhibit from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street Program (May – June 2011)
- Asa Bushnell – Ohio Governor and Springfielder (November 2011)
- The Archaeology of Clark County (2010)
- From Clark County to Washington, D.C.: Service in the Nation’s Capitol (2010)
- 112 Years and Counting: The History of the Clark County Historical Society (Summer 2009 – 2010)
- Clark County Education from 1850-Present (March 2008 – 2009)
- The Home and Household (March – May 2007)
- Communication (June – September 2007)
- Environmental Controls, Health and Hygiene (September – November 2007)
- Entertainment (November – January 2007)
- Focus on Flight (2006)
- Memories of Champions (2006)
- Long Held/Seldom Seen (February – March 2005)
- Looking Good: 100 Years of Clark County Fashion – (April – November 2005)
- 60th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion (2004)
- Clark County Glass: Pharmacies, Dairies, Medicine (2003)
