to the Osceola Mills Community Historical Foundation

Open since 1994, this year marks the beginning of a new look at the Brisbin House Museum. We have received so many acquisitions that we must re-arrange our displays. The older items will take center stage--maintaining our museum's primary purpose. The newer items will be stored according to years and brought out at a later date or when we wish to alternate displays.

The past summer has been busy for the working contingent of the Foundation, who have devoted a lot of hours to getting these items cleaned and on display .  Once again, the Foundation utilized the services of work details from the State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale. They applied new dry wall panels to both sections of the third floor, unfortunately, however, creating clouds of dust from the plastering and sanding that sifted to the main floor--necessitating even more hours of clean up. 

By next Fall, it is hoped we'll have the third floor available (*see photos below) for use with storage and/or offices. Our farm and mining tools have been moved to the basement area, which has also been completely renovated, treated with a water barrier and covered with fresh coats of paint. This not only gives us more space upstairs but also gives us a larger area to effectively display the tools from the early days of Osceola’s history.  

We hope that you'll enjoy this website as a great introduction to all that we have in our Museum---but it's so much nicer to experience our displays in person!  Please come visit us frequently!