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After 12 years of planning and construction, the historical society unveiled the Weeping Water Academy Social Hall & Thomas W. Meeske Genealogy Center on Limestone Day, June 29, 2024. The building features a new exhibit showing the fascinating history behind the 154-year-old landmark which housed the Weeping Water Academy from 1886 to 1914 and later […]

The youngest of twelve children, George Hindley, was born in Ontario, Canada on November 27, 1852. When he was six, his father passed away. Within a year, his mother was married again to a man to whom all her children objected. In 1866, his mother also died, leaving him an orphan at fourteen years of

The Weeping Water Agricultural Society Auditorium was one of four structures built as part of the Depression-era New Deal that were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. The two-story Streamline Moderne style building was constructed in 1938 with the help of a $40,000 Works Progress Administration grant. The WPA was a