The Filson Club is an organization dedicated to providing continuing adult education in the form of quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal, Ohio Valley History, a quarterly magazine, The Filson Club, weekly lectures, historical tours, and exhibits.
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Filson Club's mission is to collect, preserve, and tell the stories of Kentucky and Ohio Valley history and culture.
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In 2017, the Filson Club began a new initiative to document, preserve, and study the history of Jewish life and experience in Louisville and the Ohio Valley region, establishing the Jewish Community Archive.
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Filson Club was founded on May 15,1884, by ten men, primarily Louisvillians, with a common love of history.
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Filson Club opened its renovated campus and the newly constructed Owsley Brown II History Center at 1310 South 3rd Street in October 2016.
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Filson Club members met at founding president Reuben Durrett's home at 202 E Chestnut at Brook Street in Louisville from 1884 to 1913.
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Unfortunately, much of the Filson Club's collections were incorporated into Durrett's personal collection, meaning a portion of it left the state.
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Thruston, and other Filson Club members, recognized the need for a stand-alone building.
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The Filson Club began collecting historical material soon after its founding in 1884, when few other Kentucky institutions were doing so.
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Filson Club's website has extensive collections listings with finding aids, a keyword-searchable database of manuscript collections, digital collections of photographs and museum objects, and a library catalog of rare books and pamphlets.
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Since 2001, the Filson Club has supported scholarly research in the collection with a fellowship program that has funded the work of over 250 scholars from institutions across the United States and the world.
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Filson Club proudly produces two quarterly publications: Ohio Valley History and The Filson Club news magazine.
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Collaboration of the Filson Club Historical Society, Cincinnati Museum Center, and the University of Cincinnati, Ohio Valley History is a quarterly journal of the history and culture of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South.
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Filson Club is a quarterly news magazine dedicated to giving members a better look at what is going on at the Filson Club Historical Society.
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The Oxmoor Preservation Committee was established under Thomas Walker Bullitt's will and is responsible for advising the Oxmoor trustee on the care and ongoing maintenance of the Oxmoor mansion and farm; the president and CEO of the Filson Club is a member of this committee, as are Bullitt family members.
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