ACHS Open House
Join the Ashland County Historical Society on Saturday, July 4th, from 2:30-6:00 p.m. to explore Ashland County’s history and the legacies we carry on from the Declaration of Independence! Explore updated exhibits throughout the Freer Children’s Home and experience how moments from the past 250 years continue to shape us locally today!
Check out the exhibit “Moments that Made Us: Ashland County,” curated in partnership with ACHS and the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum.
We’re waiving our typical entry fee for our visitors! Entry is by donation, and activities will be available for learners of all ages to commemorate this once-in-a-lifetime celebration!
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
250 years ago, delegates from the thirteen self-proclaimed United States of America signed the Declaration of Independence and changed the world. The signers gambled their lives on the future of a new nation, uncertain of what would follow as the ink dried.
250 years ago, delegates from the thirteen self-proclaimed United States of America signed the Declaration of Independence and changed the world. The signers gambled their lives on the future of a new nation, uncertain of what would follow as the ink dried.
The newly free and independent states proclaimed their right to break from an unjust ruler and formed a government based on the consent of the governed, not a king. Their statement that all men are created equal introduced a new idea of freedom. It argued that governments exist to protect natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The founders pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to one another, beginning a national experiment that each generation of Americans has carried forward, writing our story one moment at a time. The ink is still drying.
Moments That Made US explores these founding principles and shares multiple perspectives from some of the United States’s most significant moments. They show how the nation has advanced the founders’ ideals, and when we’ve fallen short, inviting us to reflect on what it means to be American.
They show us that our story was never inevitable.
We shaped it at every turn.
We shaped it at every turn.
