Chillicothe & Ross County — The celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States continues with monthly events through the end of the year with “America 250.” In addition, Ohio University Chillicothe is offering a revolutionary lecture today.
And, the friends group of the World Heritage “Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks” continues to offer events, and a bus tour.
Terressa Reep is the chair of “America 250 Ross County,” sponsored by local Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also the director of the “Friends of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.” Hear her in her own words in the below interview video.
The last local America 250 event was a presentation on “Ohio Works, Innovation and Industry,” part of the First Capital Lecture Series by the Ross County Historical Society on February 12th.
Director Andrew Hall gave an overview of historical industries in Chillicothe, and then invited attendees to visit a few stations on manufacturing.
Reep was in attendance and I interviewed her about the next events, as well as events by the Friends of Hopewell Culture. See the below flyer for the next America 250 event.
“America 250 Ross County” has a Facebook page, as well a webpage on the visitors bureau’s website.
In a separate revolutionary commemoration, the annual Kennedy Lecture at Ohio University Chillicothe is “1775 and the American Revolution from Different Perspectives: A History of People’s Choices and Actions 250 Years Ago.”
John O’Keefe, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, will speak at noon on March 3rd, 2026, in Bennett Hall Room 102 (not the auditorium). From the event page:
“250 years ago, as tensions rose in the colonies and exploded into violence and warfare, revolution was underway in Britain’s North American colonies. How did ordinary people respond to this unfolding of events, and how did they themselves seek to take the American Revolution in different directions?”
See its flyer below.
Reep said the next event of the “Friends of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park” is a world-renowned flint knapper at the Hopewell earthworks on Sulphur Lick Road on March 28. The flyer is below.
She said after two more presentations, in early summer will be the annual bus trip – this year, to the Newark Earthworks and the Ohio Historic Connection museum in Columbus.
Friends of Hopewell Culture has a website and Facebook page.
Also find events in the online calendar of the Ross-Chillicothe Convention & Visitors Bureau. (If you have events, be sure to let them know!)
