The Hickory County Historical Society operates a Museum and Research Room in the John Siddles Williams House on Museum Street in Hermitage, MO. With the help of donations and proceeds from fundraisers and grants, the Society is restoring the building and sharing the numerous Hickory County artifacts which have been donated by current and former county residents.

The building housing the museum has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980.

2008 Open Houses are scheduled for May 24, July 5, August 30, and October 4 from 10am until 4pm. Open House on Dec. 13th will be from 1-6pm.

    Regular meetings of the Historical Society are the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 1 p.m. either at the Hickory County Library (Jan-March) or at the Museum. See the complete 2008 HCHS event calendar here.

If you're interested in visiting at times other than the scheduled open houses, please make arrangements with one of the following people:

Mack & Carol    (417) 722-4403

Ginger    (417) 745-2005

Dana      (417) 745-6716

Harold    (417) 993-0041

The Hickory County Historical Society was organized in 1950. In addition to maintaining the museum and research center, they have also published several reference books on Hickory County history and genealogy. A new and expanded (including some cemeteries in neighboring counties) Cemetery Directory of Hickory County, Missouri [Revised Edition] was published in 2005 by the Greene County Archives & Records Center. It can be purchased for $25.00 at the Hickory County Museum, the Hickory County Library, or The Index office in Hermitage. For mail orders, please send a check for $30.00 to Hickory County Historical Society, P. O. Box 248, Hermitage, MO 65668.

    Also available as a fundraiser for the Historical Society is a CD containing transcriptions of marriage licenses issued in Hickory County from 1872 through 1945. This CD contains 8 separate files in MS Word format, one for each of the county's extant marriage books. It is available for $18 ($15 going to the Historical Society) from Ginger Donohue, ashrynat@yahoo.com, or R 2 Box 2095A, Hermitage, MO 65668-9524.

Rte. 254 turn-off.  Note that the sign is set back

from the highway.

Page created by Ginny Sharp, July 2005; updated June 2006; revised Jan 2007.

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