Knox County, Ohio, Convention & Visitor's Bureau

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Take a trip back in time and experience the heritage of Knox County at the Knox County Agricultural Museum. Devoted almost exclusively to farm and home lifestyles of the 1800s and early 1900s, the Museum houses more than 3,000 items, each depicting how our forefathers lived and worked. The Agricultural Museum is believed to be the only one of its kind in Ohio.

Located on the Knox County Fairgrounds, the Museum houses such items as:

1923 Model T school bus
Surrey with the fringe on top
Horse-drawn hearse with adult and child wooden coffins
Conestoga wagon
Butchering tools
Large butcher block
Hollow spring log to hold water
1936 Farmall tractor
Dutchman hayloader
1924 J.I. Case threshing machine
Corn cutting sulky
Cream separators
Five-faucet shower removed from a home in Fredericktown
Wagon load of small farm tools
A do-nothing machine
Early laundry washing machines
First spin washer-dryer
Many types of butter churns
Treadle sewing machines
Early vacuum cleaners
Blacksmith tool
Coin-operated door to a restroom from the Curtis Hotel in Mount Vernon
Coverlet made in 1847
Wood lathe made in Mount Vernon
Large sleigh used for hauling on a farm
Cider press
Farm wagons
Several hand-cranked corn shellers
Dump wagons, plows
Stone gristmill
Dollies for moving buildings
Directory of all one-room schoolhouses and post offices in Knox County
Old pictures and books
Pitcher pumps
Clover seed hauler (before 1900)
Massey-Harris four-wheel drive tractor
Hundreds and hundreds of other things too numerous to mention.

Adjacent to the Museum is a log house, a one-room schoolhouse and the Hiawatha Building. The log house was home to the Calvin Lepley family and was originally built on Hazel Dell Road near Gambier in 1881. The Tiger Valley School was a one-room schoolhouse located in eastern Knox County. The Hiawatha Building once served as a house for wild animals and is the last remaining building of the Lake Hiawatha Park.

Visit the Knox County Agricultural Museum during the Knox County Fair or by appointment for groups and experience times past in Knox County. To schedule a tour call (740) 397-1423.

For more information contact the
Knox County Convention & Visitors Bureau:
1-800-837-5282 or 740-392-6102
107 South Main Street, Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050
info@visitknoxohio.org

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