New hours for Museum, Library, and Schowengerdt House in 2023 announced
The Schowengerdt House, Museum, and Research Library have new hours and appointment options for 2023.
See the winners from the 2022 Holiday Tablescapes contest
Congratulations to Immanuel United Church of Christ, Wright City, and to Leslie Held for the Dorcas Women’s Fellowship of Friedens UCC in Warrenton for taking top prizes in the WCHS’s first annual 2022 Holiday Tablescapes show and competition.
Central Wesleyan College alum featured in Ken Burns “U.S. and the Holocaust”
CWC Alum Carl Lutz conducted the largest civilian rescue mission the Holocaust, now featured in the new Ken Burns documentary on the event.
After 39 years, model painter Marilyn Owenby adds a finishing piece: herself
Visitors to the Museum have seen Marilyn Owenby’s model village work. Read about what’s new this year and the work of this master painter and artist.
We’re lighting a rare 12-foot tall Christmas Tree at the Schowengerdt House this December 3!
There’s a shortage of live Christmas trees across the U.S. this holiday season, but the Warren County Historical Society has secured one for a special lighting event Saturday, December 3, 2022 thanks to a special donor.
Now streaming: A virtual walk through Warrenton with Gene Cornell
You’ve never seen Warrenton like this. Take a virtual walk through town across the past 200 years with speaker Gene Cornell.
83 Warren County men called for service on November 10, 1918
On Monday, May 10, 1918 a group of 83 young Warren County men prepared to serve their country. They didn’t know it’d be for one day.
Go deep in the caves—and history—of Warren County
Go inside the many caves, including those designated on the endangered historic places list, of Warren County.
72 Katie Jane residents die in “15-minute holocaust” in nation’s worst nursing home fire
The Katie Jane nursing home ignited a fire that changed history on February 17, 1957. 72 of the 155 residents inside died within minutes.
A history of Central Wesleyan College and Orphan Home
Under pressure of these motives, a company of German Methodist Ministers met in 1852 and determined to form a German-American College, the “German and English College” in Quincy, IL.