BAKER FAMILY MUSEUM

CALDWELL, OH

Lamping Homestead Recreation Area The Lamping Homestead Recreation Area is located in the Marietta Unit of the Athens Ranger District. This secluded recreation site features a small campground, picnic area, trails, a fishable pond, and historic elements. Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks.
Lamping Homestead Recreation Area Credit: Wayne National Forest

The Baker Family Museum is a historic house museum located in Caldwell, Ohio. The museum is housed in a beautifully restored 19th-century Victorian home that belonged to the Baker family. The museum is dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the Baker family and the surrounding community.

The museum boasts a collection of over 10,000 artifacts, including furniture, clothing, photographs, documents, and household items that belonged to the Baker family. The museum also features exhibits on the history of the Ohio River Valley, local industries, and agriculture.

Visitors to the museum can take a guided tour of the house, which includes the main living areas, bedrooms, and kitchen. The museum also hosts special events and educational programs throughout the year, such as lectures, workshops, and children's activities.

The Baker Family Museum is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and culture of Ohio and the Midwest. Its collection of artifacts and exhibits provide a unique glimpse into the lives of the Baker family and the community they called home.

BAKER FAMILY MUSEUM is a Uncategorized or General Museum in CALDWELL OH. US MID #8403900613

The museum is classed as GMU (Uncategorized or General Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin).

Lamping Homestead Recreation Area The Lamping Homestead Recreation Area is located in the Marietta Unit of the Athens Ranger District. This secluded recreation site features a small campground, picnic area, trails, a fishable pond, and historic elements. Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks.
Lamping Homestead Recreation Area The Lamping Homestead Recreation Area offers camping, picnicking, fishing, canoeing, and a scenic hiking trail. The site has six walk-in campsites, eight picnic sites, and a picnic shelter. There are two loop trails for hiking, one at 3½ miles and the other at 1½ miles. A 2-acre pond at the site is stocked with bluegill, bass, and catfish. This secluded recreation area was once the farmstead of the Lamping family. The family homesteaded this area in the 1800s. Photo by the Forest Service.
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Camping at Lamping Homestead Recreation Area The Lamping Homestead Recreation Area is located in the Marietta Unit of the Athens Ranger District. This secluded site features a small campground, fishable pond, and trails. It’s a perfect option for those wanting a quiet getaway! Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks
MPS 35-30-01, Guernsey Co, OH
MPS 35-30-01, Guernsey County, OH
Lamping Homestead Family Cemtery What is now the Lamping Homestead Recreation Area used to be the site of the Lamping Family's homestead in the 1800s. Today all that remains of the homestead is the small Lamping Family Cemetery. Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks
Lamping Homestead Recreation Area The Lamping Homestead Recreation features a small pond, campground, and trail system. Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks
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Watch You Crawl One particular location on the BIP is worse than all others in terms of track condition, with severe bumps and misalignments left and right. Here, BIP578 slowly, slowly pulls away from that section, but there are still plenty of cars that must finish traversing the large bump before they can move any faster than a mere crawl. If nothing else, the ratty trackwork does make it nice and easy to get ahead of the train, that's for sure.
Cleaning Up The Act BIP578s southbound train has re-entered the sort of rattier section of the BIP once again on its way back to Parkersburg. Along the Ohio River, their tracks are in pretty good shape and they can get some decent speeds, but large chunks of track between Rainbow and Waterford are in fairly rough shape. Things have certainly improved on much of it since the BIP came online a few years ago, but there's clearly much work to go seeing as our train has slowed to little more than a crawl. One crossing along Muskingum River Road seems to be the most well known, and there have been some clear improvements since some of the most popular photos of the spot from when the shortline was brand new, though it's only half of the picture. Just beyond the crossing and behind me, the roadbed has shifted in every which direction on seemingly unstable ground. Bumpy is putting it lightly, things don't look great back there. The dramatic shifts from heavy industrial area to almost midwest-esque scenery to the seemingly crumbling trackwork in the shadows of the trees is what drew me to the Belpre-Industrial Parkersburg. There's really a little something for everybody on this little railroad.
Return to Form Having spent a good hour and a half at Globe, the BIP local turned around and began its return back to Parkersburg. I had only just been returning to Globe from a gas station to check their progress when they sped right on out, so I turned tail and headed back to a spot I knew I had to get in better light - an old smokestack! Rare sights these days, they're always worth a look, though I can't say I know any history on it and the building beside it, try as I might to find it. And with the way the kudzu spirals up that stack, you have to wonder if it's gonna cover the whole thing up before it inevitably gets torn down one day. With our train having switched to heading south, better light was to be had finally, and the leader of the train also switched. BIP578 became the new leader, and it's a more fitting one as this motor traces its history back to the same company who once owned these very tracks - the B&O. Built as the B&O4061, it lived on CSX for a time before shipping off to RailAmerica and eventually the Ottawa Valley Railroad for a good chunk of time. It appears to have suffered some mechanical problems while on the RLK, and was rebuilt from a GP40 to a GP38-3 and then sent to the BIP. A perfect place for it to go, I think.

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BAKER FAMILY MUSEUM
805 CUMBERLAND ST
CALDWELL
OH
43724-1241

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MID # 8403900613
Name BAKER FAMILY MUSEUM
Alternate Name BAKER FAMILY MUSEUM
Classification Uncategorized or General Museums, , Midwest
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) 311131762
NTEECC
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM) 201212
INCOME 19,425
REVENUE 0
LAT/LONG 39.750421, -81.515535
CODES FIPS State Code: 39
FIPS County Code: 121
US Census Tract: 968400
US Census Block: 3018