News & Events

June 3, 2013
The Date has been Set: Soft Opening & Grand Opening of the New Lincoln Heritage Museum!

In 2008 Lincoln College broke ground for the Lincoln Center—a new multi-faceted facility featuring a state-of-the-art museum, a physical fitness and health center, a spacious gymnasium, and a multi-media classroom and office space. The center opened in 2010, with the new museum being the final phase of the building project. Lincoln College hired Taylor Studios Read the full article…

June 23, 2012
Civil War Letters Donated to Museum

Mary Bell of Avondale Estates, Georgia recently donated to the Lincoln Heritage Museum a collection of Civil War letters. The letters were written by Pvt. David M. Jones of Pennsylvania to Meadville, PA during his time as a soldier of 9th Pennsylvania Infantry (38th Pennsylvania Volunteers). Jones served from April 1861 to May 1864 and Read the full article…

June 23, 2012
Letter written to President Lincoln on Exhibit

The Lincoln Heritage Museum has received a one-of-a-kind letter. Donated by longtime museum friend Betty Hickey of Elkhart, Illinois, the letter was penned to President Abraham Lincoln on October 8, 1863 from Ada Bailhache of Camp Dennison, Ohio. In the three-page letter, Bailhache pleads to the president on behalf of her husband whom Lincoln had Read the full article…