Our Vision:  A community that values its history as it plans its future.

Our Mission: To be a trusted resource to connect the diverse stories and fabric of the past to the people of today and tomorrow through preservation, education, and engagement.

Our Core Values:

1. We delight in discovery.  Curiosity about the past illuminates our present and helps us prepare to navigate tomorrow.
2. We welcome you.  We seek to provide hospitable spaces for all to gather, engage, learn, and build community. We embrace a diversity of perspectives in our storytelling and within our organization.
3. We get things done. We are committed to our communities and tackle the responsibility of preserving and interpreting our unfolding history with energy.
4. We collaborate. We are enthusiastically committed to the cultural and geographic communities that were and are in Delaware County and embrace working alongside them to preserve, understand, and share the region’s historic people, events, and objects.
5. We are stewards.  We promote preservation of places, artifacts, stories, and memories.

We recognize that the history of the County is the history of the various people who settled in, live in and work in Delaware County and communities who fostered the growth of the county. To accurately bring all our histories to the public, the Delaware County Historical Society embraces, recruits, and welcomes as board members, as volunteers, as members and as the viewing public all who live, work, or have a history in Delaware County!

The Delaware County Historical Society is a nonprofit 501 3c institution.  It receives monetary support from the community for its facilities and collections and for its educational and historic preservation efforts. The facilities and collections are among the most valuable assets of the Delaware County community. The Society holds and utilizes these unique structures and treasures for the education and enjoyment of the public.

The Society serves and includes all of Delaware County Ohio.  The Delaware County Historical Society’s mission is to preserve the history of and educate about the history of Delaware County, Ohio. The Delaware County Historical Society welcomes all regardless of race, religion or sexual persuasion.