Apr 20, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History, New & Exciting
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Emeritus When you look at the history of inventors in Hamilton County, occasionally a long-forgotten figure will emerge. One such person was R. Walter Wilson, known as Walter or just R.W. He was born in 1873 to a Quaker...
Mar 20, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Emeritus America has a long tradition of citizen soldiers who would organize to protect the community. This goes back to the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the Revolutionary War Minutemen at Lexington and Concord. It became...
Feb 20, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Emeritus We think of driverless cars as some of today’s cutting-edge technology, but people have been experimenting with the concept for a long time. One such experiment on a Hamilton County farm in the 1930s attracted...
Jan 20, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Emeritus Stephen “Steve” Roberts was born in Roberts Settlement to Stephen and Mary Roberts. His grandfather Willis had been one of the first emigrants to the Settlement in the 1830s. Sources differ on the younger Stephen’s...
Dec 5, 2025 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Transportation of goods to market is a crucial link in any business. Today, the price of fuel has a huge impact on the price of groceries in the supermarket. However, the process now is still much simpler than it was 175...
