Our Franklin Museum will reopen after our summer closure, but with different dates for September and October.
For those two months, we will be open from 10 to 2 on the second and fourth Saturdays, starting September 10th.
Stop down and see our new displays telling Griffith’s story from its beginning through the 1920’s, and our new veterans’ Wall of Honor displays.
A NEW PAGE
We have a new page on our website featuring the rebuild of our C&O Inspection Car that had been left in pieces when a renovation project was abandoned several years ago by the person who began it.
Thankfully, two men who have a passion for these vintage work cars stepped up and are bringing our little car back to life. Look for information and photos here.
FRANKLIN CENTER MUSEUM CLOSED UNTIL SEPTEMBER
The Model Railroad group at Franklin Center has closed down for the summer. When they are not open, we do not have easy access to bathroom facilities, so we must close also. We will be open the 3rd Saturday in September, the 17th, from 10 a.m to 2 p.m.
As we did this past summer and through last winter, we will be again working on new displays during our downtime. In particular, we will be setting up displays in our new school and school sports room.
Good news! Our Franklin Center Display Room is open again.
This month due to the holiday, we were open on the 2nd Saturday, and will be open on the 4th Saturday, September 25th. In October we will go back to our normal first and third Saturdays, October 2nd and 16th. Enter through Door G off the big parking lot.
While we were closed for the summer, we began redoing the first six display cases in our History room to tell the whole Story of Griffith, from its earliest beginnings through its incorporation in 1904. This will be an ongoing project through the fall.
Watch this space for more information about upcoming events and activities, including running The Hess Express at Griffith Octoberfest, our Annual Dinner and Meeting, and Santa in the Caboose. All of these will be dependent upon Indiana’s COVID protocols.
Open House at our Franklin Center Museum, followed by our first Historical Walking Tour.
September 11th – 6 pm
Join us as we tour Broad Street’s 100 N and 100 S blocks to learn about some old-time businesses, the railroads and early Griffith citizens. This is a first for us, but a couple more tours are planned in coming weeks.
The Hess Express is running at the Fall Harvest Craft Festival in Central Park.
September 28-29 – 10 to 5 pm, weather permitting.
The Hess Express is running at Griffith’s Octoberfest in Central Park.
October 4, 5 & 6 – weather permitting. Friday – 4 pm to dusk; Saturday and Sunday – 1 pm to dusk.
A new Fun Fall event coming in late October. More details coming soon.
December – Santa dates To Be Announced in November.
Griffith History Museums 