We know everyone is 👀 eyeing the 🌞 Saturday sunshine, but we’re counting down the hours until Monday morning. Why? Because we’re throwing open the doors to the Shiloh Meeting Hall for a weeklong Open House! What’s inside? What have we been working on? You’ll have to step through the doors to find out. (Hint: It involves some incredible #OddFellows history!) Link in comments. #OzarkHistory #ArkansasOzarks #DowntownSpringdale

🏚️ What is that big white building on Huntsville Avenue in Springdale? You’ll have your chance to find out! The Shiloh Meeting Hall is having an open house from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, March 2, through Saturday, March 7! Check it out! Free!

Shiloh Meeting Hall Open House

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Clara Manuel Hayes (1881-1946), the oldest born to Joseph and Susan Manuel, was married to Leonard Charles Hayes (1882-1933), who came to Fayetteville from Springfield, Missouri. He built a seven-room home on family property on Olive Avenue. They had nine children, one of whom died as a newborn and the other, Edgar, when he was about five, leaving seven others to raise: daughters Catherine, Zoline, Christine, Gussie, Mary, and Betty, and son Ralph, whom everyone called “Buddy.” Their story, and others in her family, are told in Shiloh’s exhibit, One Step Higher: Five Generations of a Black Ozark Family, which will return to viewing by the public once museum renovations are completed in mid-March. Photo is from the Shiloh Museum’s Betty Hayes Davis Collection (S-2015-71-15). #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #ArkanasOzarks #OzarkHistory

🌟Happening tonight! It's not too late to register for this virtual program! Free! #ThisOldHouse #PropertyResearch #homehistory