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Arch. and His. Society Publications.
THE FIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
BY RUSH R. SLOANE, PRESIDENT.
1857-1901.
Early in the spring of 1857, steps were
taken to secure a
meeting of Pioneers of the Fire Lands
for the purpose of friendly
reunion, and to devise plans to effect a
permanent organization
for collecting and preserving a record
of the incidents and history
of the settlement of the Firelands.
The first meeting was held at the Court
House, in Norwalk,
Huron County, Ohio, May 20, 1857.
An adjourned meeting was held at the
Court House, in Nor-
walk, Ohio, June 17, 1857, and the draft
of a constitution was
made and adopted.
After twenty-one years of successful
work and many of the
pioneers having passed away, it was
feared that a few years
more would witness the abandonment of
the society, and recog-
nizing the fact that while generations
are passing away history
is accumulating, it was thought best to
incorporate the society
with its old name, under the laws of
Ohio, and this was done
on the 9th day of June, 1880, and the
home of the Society was
fixed at Norwalk, Ohio, at which place
it has its library and
museum, at present in temporary
quarters, but expects in the
near future to erect a suitable building
for all its purposes, for
which object quite a fund is already
secured.
The membership of our Society is
constituted of annual mem-
bers who pay one dollar a year in
advance, or as a life member
five dollars in advance. All members
shall be entitled to one
copy each of all new publications of the
Society issued during
the first year of their membership, and
by the payment of an
additional five, making it ten dollars,
in advance, a life member
will also be entitled to one copy of The
Firelands Pioneer, pub-
lished since 1861. Honorary members may
be elected by vote of
the Society. And the Society is
supported by its membership
fees and from the sale of The
Firelands Pioneer.