If you've visited this site before, you may have just noticed something new. The menu ribbon running across the the top of each page has another choice: "Collections." This subtle change represents both the culmination of an exciting year-long initiative and a the start of a new way of doing business for our 35-year-old organization.

Over the past year, trustee Connie Ostrove and an intrepid platoon of volunteers, including society members and interns from Capital University and Kent State University, have been working hard to bring our operations into the twenty-first century. First, Connie and Treasurer Doug Wittig applied for and succeeded in acquiring a grant from the Gordon Chandler Memorial Fund, through the Columbus Foundation to catalog our collections and make them more accessible to researchers and the community in general.

The goal for the first year of this ongoing project has been met with the entry of detailed information in our computerized catalog about more than 150 objects in our collections, including documents such as books and photographs, as well as clothing and furniture. This represents a small sample of the numerous objects in our collections, some of which are displayed at our museum and many others that are in storage.

Please visit our museum as we mount new exhibits and this website to learn about items as they are added to our new catalog.

Thank you for your interest in Bexley's history and the Bexley Historical Society.

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Read about the Bexley Historical Society's other activities, events, projects, and programs in our newsletter, the Historical Herald.

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