The Museum of Fulton County is hosting the first annual Lauber Hill Community Founder’s Day on Aug. 18 at the Lauber Hill Reformed Mennonite Church. The event celebrates the immigrant families who traveled to Ohio and established a farming community near Lauber Hill 190 years ago.
Lauber Hill was first settled in 1834 when families met in Marshallville and traveled west together to purchase farmland in what was then Henry County. By the 1880s, Lauber Hill’s farming community had grown significantly with multiple churches, a school and many shops.
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Every year the Founder’s Day event will feature one of the families that settled near Lauber Hill with a program sharing the family’s history. The event will begin at 4 pm with a program in the meeting house followed by a traditional Mennonite meal prepared using local recipes. The meals will include fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, noodles, green beans, sweet pickles, beets and coleslaw.
Tickets for the event are $30 and there are only 200 being sold. All proceeds from ticket sales will go toward the Lauber Hill Fund. Preregistration and prepayment are required for the event due to the limited seating.
For more information visit museumoffultoncounty.org.
