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Ohio Village
A period restaurant, the Colonel Crawford Inn, offers a traditional menu at reasonable prices, as well as outdoor dining during the summer in the adjacent Elk's Head Garden. The village buildings include the Town Hall, Print Shop, General Store and Masonic Lodge, Church and Education Center, Pharmacy, Blacksmith Shop, Tinsmith Shop, Broom and Basket Shop, Cabinetmaker/Undertaker's Shop, Harnessmaker's and Weaver's shops, Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society, Village Bakery, Market House, Livery Stable, Schoolhouse, Doctor's Office and Residence, the Ohio Village Bank, the Colonel Crawford Inn and the Elk's Head Tavern. Livestock in the village includes horses, goats, ducks, and guinea hens. The goal of the village Church is to interpret the importance of religion in everyday life, community spirit and working together. The lower level of the Church is the Education Center, where educational workshops and programs will be conducted. It also houses a state of the art video conferencing studio and volumes of teacher resource materials.
Entertainment is also scheduled periodically during the village's summer weekends. This includes music, carriage rides, croquet, and costumed, living history interpreters in a variety of scenarios. Children may experience life in the 1860s when they visit the OHS Kid's Page. A Trek Through Time at the Ohio Village allows website visitors to tour the Ohio Village's residences and craft shops while discovering daily life in Ohio and the State's role in the Civil War. LOCATION
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The Ohio Historical Society opened the Ohio Village
on 27 July 1974, to provide an entertaining means of learning about life in 19th century
Ohio. 
Rather than representing a specific town from the past, the reconstructed village
represents a typical county seat of the 1860s. A rural community set on 15 acres of
pasture land, the village is intermingled with period gardens, a sitting park, and a duck
pond. Sixteen buildings, connected by a wooden boardwalk, house 22 craft shops,
residences, and offices, in which costumed interpreters share their knowledge of life in
Ohio during the Civil War. The newest additions to the village are the gothic-revival
style Church and an Education Center, located in the church's lower level. Skilled
shopkeepers make hand-crafted items which are sold in the individual trade shops, in the
General Store, and through Marketplace. 
The Ohio Village Singers are a troupe of entertainers who play musical instruments and
sing in musical and dramatic interpretations of early America as part of the village's
year-round programming. The group has made appearances throughout the state and
internationally, performing music ranging from early hymns and Appalachian folk pieces to
parlor ballads and minstrel songs. The singers have produced four recordings, which are
available at the village's General Store and the Ohio Historical Center Museum Shop. 
The
Ohio Village Muffins and the Lady Diamonds, 19th-century baseball teams, are fielded by
Ohio Historical Society volunteers. The Ohio Village Muffins, founded in 1981, have been
featured in Sports Illustrated and the Wall Street Journal, and
on National Public Radio and ABC-TV's Good Morning America. Home
games begin in May and continue into September.