The Williamson County Historical Society held its quarterly membership meeting on Sunday, April 27, 2025 here at the museum/library at 2:00 P.M.
During the meeting, President Sam Lattuca, caught the membership up on projects undertaken at the museum & library since the last meeting, accessions taken in, upcoming projects and tours and the state of the museum in general.
The program was given by Sharon Vansaghi, who reported on work that had been done at Bradley-Jenkins Cemetery located on Remington Road near Marion. She also discussed some of the processes involved in locating, cleaning and restoring monuments and grave markers. Eighteen members were in attendance.
The Williamson County Historical Society will be holding a membership meeting on Sunday, April 27, 2025 here at the museum/library at 2:00 P.M.
During the meeting we will be going over projects undertaken at the museum & library since the last meeting, accessions taken in, upcoming projects and the state of the museum. The program will be about Cemetery Restoration and will be given by Sharon Vansaghi.
As a reminder, our WCHS membership dues run from January thru December and are $25 per year. You can check the status of your dues by looking at the year date on the address label on this mailing. If you’re dues are current it will say 2025 or higher, if it says 2024 or earlier, your dues are due. We hope to see you at the meeting.
The Marion CLIO Club toured the museum on May 8th, 2025. Eleven members of the club received a tour from WCHS president, Sam Lattuca. The members were informed of the records that are available for genealogical research in the library and then toured through the many rooms of artifacts in the historical societies old jail building.
Fourteen students and mentors from Ambleside School in Marion visited the WCHS Museum on Friday, March 21, 2025. The students were given a complete tour of the museum and library by Curator/Coordinator Sharon Vansaghi and WCHS President Sam Lattuca. During the tour the group was presented with artifacts representing many ways of life gone by in Williamson County. The group was shown tools, housewares, medicines and clothing that would have been used from pioneer times through to the mid-20th century. In addition, the group was spoken to about early Native American life and artifacts and students, of course, always find the old jail cells interesting.
Continue readingThe historical society’s museum and library are now back to our four day a week schedule. We are now available at the museum from Wednesday through Saturday from 9:30 AM till 3:00 P.M. for research of tours.