Written by Jacob Smith, Digitization Coordinator for the Huron County Museum. Cliquez ici pour le Français As part of the Huron County Museum’s ongoing digitization project, I have been busy scanning and uploading census records called Return of Inhabitants to the...
A George Agnew Reid painting has returned to Huron County thanks to a donation of the painting The Homeseekers Fording the Credit to the Huron County Museum. Homeseekers Fording the Credit was recently donated to the Museum from the Perkins Bull Collection. Most of...
Written by museum assistant Kevin den Dunnen, who is working on exhibit research projects this summer. Over 6,600 people came through the Huron County Gaol’s long and narrowing hallway between 1841 and 1922. For each entry into the Gaol, employees recorded information...
Written by museum assistant Julia Jim, who is helping to coordinate this year’s National Historic Places Days event. As we prepare to celebrate National Historic Places Days this Sunday, July 9, at the Museum with a free ice cream social, we take a look back at one of...
Eloise Ann Skimings was a poet, musician, music teacher, composer, newspaper columnist and author. She was described as “one of Goderich’s best-known citizens” and also “The Poetess of Lake Huron”. She was often seen in Goderich wearing elaborate dresses, hats,...
“I shall have to take my chance amongst the rest. I have only once to die at any rate.” – excerpt from a letter written by Joseph Hodskinson, March 29, 1862 The American Civil War doesn’t usually come to mind when thinking about Huron County...
