OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARD OF MERIT

The following exerpts are from a letter by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office, accepting our project and granting the Old Jail with their Award of Merit

News Release:
From: Ohio Historic Preservation Office
567 East Hudson Street
Columbus, Ohio  43211-1030
www.ohiohistory.org/resource/histpres/

August 27, 1998

Ms. Judith L. Miller
Holmes County Commissioners
2 Court Street, Suite 14
Millersburg, Ohio 44654

Dear Ms. Miller:
It is a pleasure to inform you that the rehabilitation and adaptive use of the former Holmes County Jail and Sheriff's Residence in Millersburg by the Holmes County Commissioners has been chosen as the recipient of a 1998 Ohio Historic Preservation Award of Merit.

The Ohio Historic Preservation Office Awards will be presented on Saturday, September 26, 1998, at the Annual Meeting of the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus.  We invite you and a guest to join us as our guests at the Historic Preservation Awards Luncheon on the Museum Level of the Ohio Historical Center at I-71 and 17th Ave. at 12:00p.m.  A response form n enclosed for your convenience...

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Sincerely,
Thomas M. Wolf
Public Education Manager

This is the award the Commissioners' Office received from the state in 1998.  It resides on the wall in the Receptionist's area, as one walks in the front door.

picture by Anna Patton

For a letter similar to the one submitted to the Ohio Historical Preservation Office, Click here!!