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Welcome to Richfield, Summit County, Ohio!
If you wish to call before you visit to confirm that the museum is open, please phone 330-659-0336.
Our volunteers generously donate their time each Tuesday morning, so please stop by when you get a chance! We have handicapped parking and ramp access to the building.
Richfield Historical Society Mission Statement
The purpose of this Society shall be to gather, preserve, collect and display objects of historic importance to the community of Richfield, and to interpret our local history through historical programming, publications, exhibits, and other activities for residents of the area.
The work of Richfield Historical Society consists of the following activities:
Maintaining existing exhibits for the general public’s viewing.
- Individuals from Richfield, whether they are current residents or have lived here at one time in their life.
- School children, especially third graders who visit in May and participate in a “scavenger hunt quiz,” as well as other students of history.
- Individuals from outside of Richfield who are interested in area history.
Research
- Genealogy of family history.
- History of specific Richfield houses.
- Collaborative research with other historical societies such as Valley Windows.
- History students who need information on specific subjects.
Loan exhibits or items
Store exhibits or items in appropriate manner
Maintain Richfield’s historical presence within and outside of the community
- Annual Richfield Home & Garden Show
- Screen Door Art Festival
Fund Raising sufficient to support Richfield historical activities
Future Plans
- Use of software application Past Perfect
- New Exhibits
- More collaborative community activities
The SPIRIT of The Richfield Historical Society is published on a wild card in The Richfield Historical Deck of Cards.
“The Richfield Historical Society is here to help preserve our town’s history for you and your children. With help from residents and descendants of early families, we strive every day:
- To collect & preserve records and articles of interest pertaining to the history and families of Richfield, Ohio;
- To promote interest in Richfield, Ohio history;
- To make available to interested parties such historical information as may be obtainable and develop facilities for Society meetings and exhibits.
A continuing project of the Society is to gather historical data of old families, old homes, organizations and public buildings, which are being filed for reference and made available to the public.”
"History organizations help preserve and tell the stories of the past. All accounts of the past—all history—derive from memory and from the traditions, documents, images, artifacts, buildings, monuments, landscapes, and ruins that have survived. Since memory is fallible, and because all things eventually perish, preserving these traces of the past is vital to our ability to enjoy history’s gifts.
History institutions, in partnership with their communities, are leaders in preserving, researching, and interpreting these traces of the past. By helping to save and keep history’s sources, and by joining with others to study the evidence and engagingly tell history’s stories, history institutions connect the people, thoughts, and events of yesterday with the active memories and abiding concerns of people and communities today, and with the broad sweep of national and, indeed, world history.
By preserving and presenting the evidence of the past, and by actively connecting past, present, and future through exhibitions and public programming, history organizations pass the gift of history on to future generations. They guarantee that each generation can search for its own answers, and forge its own meanings."1
1 What History Gives Us, AASLH.org
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Richfield Historical Society is a 501 (c) (3) Non-Profit Organization Tax ID Number: 34-1900859Public Charity Status: 170 (b) (1) (A) (vi)
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