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Individuals from Richfield, whether they are current residents or have lived here at one time in their life.
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School children, especially third graders who visit in May and participate in a “scavenger hunt quiz,” as well as other students of history.
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Individuals from outside of Richfield who are interested in area history.
Research
Loan exhibits or items. Store exhibits or items in appropriate manner
Maintain Richfield’s historical presence within and outside of the community
Fund Raising sufficient to support Richfield historical activities
Future Plans
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:
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To collect & preserve records and articles of interest pertaining to the history and families of Richfield, Ohio;
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To promote interest in Richfield, Ohio history;
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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
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1 What History Gives Us, AASLH.org
