Parkersburg Historical Society recruits local students to help with Historical House projects

Getting kids interested in history isn’t always easy, but the Parkersburg Historical Society is giving local students a hands-on history lesson by recruiting them to help out with different projects at the Historical House.

Brian Surratt , Aplington- Parkersburg High School Industrial Tech teacher, has taken several of his classes to the Historical House to work on projects in the past.

Last year, a group of students built a shelving system in a basement storage room to help organize spare lumber and other materials laying around the house.

Now, he has a group of three students in his Building Trades class that are building an archive room for the historical society to store artifacts and other miscellaneous items.

The archive room will be a climate-controlled room in the attic of the Historical House where the historical society can keep aging artifacts and other memorabilia to better protect and preserve the historic objects.

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