Museum and gift shop are open the second Saturday of each month April-November or by appointment. Individual/group tours available. Call or email to schedule.
The Pickerington-Violet Township Historical Society was organized in 1987.
Our Museum is located in the Olde Carnegie Library which was built in 1916 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. Pickerington was the smallest community in the United States to receive such a grant. When a new, larger library was constructed on Opportunity Way in 1993, the Library Board donated the Carnegie Library to the city of Pickerington with the stipulation that a museum be created and maintained.
The Pickerington-Violet Township Historical Society has filled the main level of the Museum with a collection of artifacts and memorabilia including the original town pump, antique household items, clothing, business signage and equipment, school furnishings, photographs, written histories, birth certificates, death records dating from the early 1900s, and more. In addition, a gift shop offers visitors a variety of souvenirs which depict our area’s past. Included are note and postcards, prints, books, pottery, china, throws and T-shirts.
The lower level is the home of photographs of Pickerington-Violet Township high school graduating classes from 1909 to 1981. This area also serve as the Historical Society’s meeting room and was the office/warehouse for the Pickerington Food Pantry until 2012.
The Pickerington-Violet Township Historical Society's mission is to preserve our community’s past for future generations to see and use.
