Open 2pm - 5pm
on weekends from Memorial Day through Labor Day
Open 2pm - 8pm
during the annual Loudonville Street Fair
Other days and
times by appointment
admission 50¢
Speaker Schedule
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All
events are at 7:00 pm
and at Museum unless
otherwise noted
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February 15, 2010
"Loudonville Memorabilia"
John and Alice Schopfer
March 15, 2010
"Women Soldiers in the Civil War"
Roxanna Baumgartner
April 19, 2010
"Knox County Agricultural Museum"
Art Mizer, Coordinator
May 17, 2010
Tour
June 21, 2010
Potluck Dinner
6:30 pm
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Named after the life-long Loudonville resident
whose generosity helped make it possible, the Cleo Redd Fisher
Museum opened in 1973.
Not long after the formation of the Mohican
Historical Society in 1961, Mrs. Fisher, well-known for her strong
interest in local history and her many collections (among them
porcelain ware and Loudonville artifacts), advised its Board she
hoped it would some day have a museum and toward the end, planned to
bequeath most of her estate to the Society.
Four years after Mrs. Fisher's death in 1969, her
hope became a reality. Its construction financed by funds included
in her estate (augmented by donations from the community), The Cleo
Redd Fisher Museum was erected on the ground once occupied by her
home.
Four decades after Mrs. Fisher's death, her legacy
lives on in the Museum's exhibits, which feature many artifacts and
antiques from her collections, and in its admission price which,
because she had the foresight to establish a fund to cover its
annual operating and maintenance costs, remain the same as the day
it opened, on August 26, 1973.
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A
1913 motorcycle sidecar, its first product, is the highlight of
a display which tells the history of the Loudonville-based
Flxible Company, better known for the intra and inter-city buses
it produced from the mid-1920s to the mid-1990s.
Interested
in rare musical instruments? The Museum has one, a combination
player piano and organ made by The Reproduco Company of Chicago
that was originally used in the local Opera House to provide
background music for silent films.
The
Museum's Victorian era parlor display features a number of
antiques from the time. Among them a horsehair sofa, loveseat,
pump organ, and an unusual 1868 hair wreath.