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For those wanting to spend a rainy afternoon or a whole weekend
immersed in history, Crawford County has a number of amenities
5 Historic Sites that connect our region to not just regional history, but major events

and individuals who shaped our nation’s past. Join us as we explore
everything from timeless architecture to the history of the
You’ll want to see underground railroad and the man that helped get
Andrew Jackson elected President.

Mount Hope: The Baldwin-Reynolds Estate

Every town in America, it seems, has their own house museum that
relays the history of Dr. or Mr. or Mrs. “fill in name here” that was
pivotal in helping to found the area in the 1800s. In Crawford
County, however, the house museum was owned by a United States
Supreme Court Justice… and he is responsible for helping to acquire
Florida, the Missouri Compromise and many of our nation’s tariff
laws.Mount Hope: The Baldwin-Reynolds House Museum was the
former home of United States Supreme Court Justice Henry
Baldwin, who served on the bench from 1830 through 1844 after
spending time in Congress and helping Andrew Jackson get elected
President. Baldwin lived in the house a relatively short time (dying
within a year of its completion), but his descendants (and future
Mount Hope residents) were major figures in the Atlantic & Great
Western Railroad as well as much of the development of this region.
Image by Valerie Autumn

Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum

Long before television and even radio, people had to find
amusements a little differently! In 1892, the Keystone View
Company brought three-dimensional imagery to the common
American home through the stereoscope – a contraption that exists in
the hands of children today as the “View Master.” Keystone View
lives, from the world’s leading manufacturer of stereoscopic
technology to the world’s leading museum of stereoscopic
photography. Come take a trip around the world with Johnson-Shaw
without leaving the building.