Friday, April 24, 4-7pm
Saturday, April 25, 9am-7pm
Sunday, April 26, 11am-5pm
THE BIG ROADSHOW: Transportation Milestones that Shaped Pickerington is a free, family-friendly event that explores how transportation helped shape Pickerington, and the nation, focusing on key milestones including Zane’s Trace, the Ohio & Erie Canal, the railroad, and Interstate 70.
This is an America 250 event sponsored by the Pickerington-Violet Township Historical Society.
Exhibits at The Big Roadshow will bring history to life. The centerpiece of the show is a large S-scale model train display modeled after the Toledo & Ohio Railroad route, along which locomotives still travel through Pickerington today.
Additional highlights include an early motorcycle on loan from the American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame and Museum. Antique vehicles on displayed in the parking lot, weather permitting.
Sixth-grade students from Harmon Middle School will present the story of Zane’s Trace, an ambitious 230-mile frontier road stretching from Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), through southeastern Ohio to present-day Maysville, Kentucky.
The Diehl family of Master Builders has created a large LEGO display celebrating our transportation history.
The Pickerington Public Library will offer a children’s craft and the Pickerington Early Learning Center students will display their art in the “Big Roadshow Coloring Corner” for kids.
Transportation-related wood carvings from the Olivedale Wood Carving Club will be on exhibit.
Canal boat captain re-enactor, Jack Campbell, will be on hand for a presentation, as well as a pioneer surveyor, portrayed by Dale Ferbrache. Dates and time will be announced.
Tours of the original Pickerington train depot at the Toledo & Ohio Central Train Station, 50 N. Center St., will be available on the hour Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Re-enactor Tony Mills will portray Clyde Leach, the depot agent during a time when Pickerington was home to both the state’s largest creamery and a major grain mill.
Admission is free and food will be available for purchase.
More information is available at www.pickhistory.org.
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