Opening night audience at the Jefferson Theatre, March 31, 1903. L.C. OVERPECKThe city’s Globe Opera House, built in 1866 as the Dixon Opera House, had artificial gas theatre lighting and a stage too small to meet the production needs of even modest sized traveling theatrical companies. The Music Hall, erected in 1882, also had a
"Intriguing Objects & Curiosities" “What IS that?” is a question often asked by visitors, volunteers and even staff of the Butler County Historical Society. A new exhibit in the Benninghofen Museum, “Intriguing Objects and Curiosities,” invites visitors to use their knowledge of history to identify artifacts from the Society’s basement, closets and back shelves. Categories in the
Saturday, January 25th: 1:00pm "The Wreck of the CH&D: A Pioneering Railroad Undone by Greed & Fraud Join local railroad enthusiast and author Jim Krause as he explains the dramatic rise and equally dramatic fall of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. The CH&D was a prime factor in the growth of western Ohio's