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From paintings, to glass work and pottery, we have

From paintings, to glass work and pottery, we have something special for the art connoisseur 🧐

For more details, and to view our other items up for bid, check out our virtual silent auction. The auction is live NOW with bidding going until 8 pm on June 18th: https://www.32auctions.com/pfpf25

Special thanks to One Acre Ceramics, Jack Pine Studio, Bob Kroeger, and inspired Art by Linda Shetzer for supporting the Wood County Museum!

Start your summer off in style 😎 Check out the

Start your summer off in style 😎

Check out these and other fashionable packages on our silent auction website. Bidding going until 8 pm on June 18th: https://www.32auctions.com/pfpf25

Special thanks to Kendra Scott, Dr. Brujic at Premier Vision Group, House of Dow, Dave & Cindy Hollinger, and Jaci Riley Jewelry for supporting the Wood Country Museum!

The best of the best 🥇 Check out these excitin

The best of the best 🥇

Check out these exciting gift card/certificate packages from across Northwest Ohio! From Bowling Green, to Perrysburg, to Tiffin, we have something for everyone! Check out our virtual silent auction website for more information: https://www.32auctions.com/pfpf25

Special thanks to Sam B’s, Beckett's, Downtown Bowling Green, Ohio, Jimmy John’s, BG Dairy Queen, City Egg, QDOBA, Coyote Beads & Jewelry, the Curry Lounge, Grounds for Thought, Call of the Canyon Cafe, Easy Street Cafe, South Side 6, Al Mar Lanes, The Flying Joe, Rave 12 Theater Levis Commons, Mr. Freeze, Zingo’s, Swig, Walt Churchill’s, Marco’s, Hot Head Burritos, Lanny & Marcia Traber, Bennett Enterprises, The Empire Restaurant, Riehm Produce Farm LLC, Jolly’s Drive-In, Reino's Pizza & Pasta, Reclaim It 127, The Ritz Theater, Jet's Pizza, Campus Pollyeyes, and Pisanello's for supporting the Wood County Museum!

Education Coordinator Mike McMaster here to tell y

Education Coordinator Mike McMaster here to tell you about the Silk Cultivation in Wood County

Isaac Van Tassel, 1786-1849, is best remembered as the superintendent of the Maumee Indian Mission that sat near present day Missionary Island on what is State Route 65/ West River Road in Wood County. But after the Mission was closed in 1834, he resided in Plain Township where he was engaged in a unique type of agriculture, that is, silk culture. In about 1834 or 1835, Van Tassel imported a variety of fast-growing Mulberry trees he obtained in Connecticut and New York and planted them by the hundreds on his farm on the west quarter section 35, Plain Township (today between Sand Ridge Road at Mitchell Road, north of Route 6.) With eastern silk worms, and most likely a silk spinning machine that was obtainable in catalogs, he produced silk as a cash income crop. A book “A New Family Encyclopedia 1835”, owned by Isaac Van Tassel, now at the BGSU Archives, has a chapter dedicated to “The Rearing of Silk Worms.” Isaac Van Tassel was one of thousands of Americans in the 1830s to begin, what they hoped would be, a lucrative industry. The silk craze came to an end, however, in 1840 when the domestic silk market crashed.

Photo Caption:
Shown is a patented silk spinning machine of that time and “A New Family Encyclopedia” that Isaac Van Tassel owned and probably used as his guide to silk cultivation.

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