•••Cleo Redd Fisher Museum

203 East Main Street
Loudonville, OH 44842
 

(419) 994-4050
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The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum is home to a number of special collections and artifacts. Many of the items on display are related to the local history and events in Loudonville and the surrounding area.

The Mohican Historical Society has been operating the museum since 1973 and is committed to the preservation and promotion of the history of Loudonville and the Mohican area. In addition to operating the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum, the Mohican Historical Society offers monthly evening programs from September through April on local history and/or history in general. The Society also offers support with local history and genealogy research and information when available.

 For more information regarding the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum or the the Mohican Historical Society please contact Jim Sharp, Museum Curator at the above address.

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1913 Flxible sidecar

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.
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Combination player piano & organ

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.

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Victorian Era Parlor

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.


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

December 15, 2008
Christmas Dinner 6:00 pm
American Legion Hall

February 16, 2009
 Our Museum as it Appeared on Opening  Day, 35 Years Ago"
Original Video Narrated by Walter Luse

March 16, 2009
"An Evening with President William McKinley"
Steve Kick

April 20, 2009
"Statues in Time-Ohio's Civil War Monuments"

May 19,  2009
Museum Tour

June 15, 2009
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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