Congratulations to the new and returning officers and directors!!
President: Dustin Welch, Tuscarawas County
First Vice President: Dale Davis, Guernsey County
Second Vice President: Claren Blackburn, Harrison County
Secretary: Amy Welch, Tuscarawas County
Treasurer: Marilyn Monzlua, Harrison County
Directors:
George Bedway, Harrison County
Bryan Coulson, Belmont County
Don Richards, Harrison County
Dave Snyder, Wayne County
Martin McKim, Jefferson County
Luke Anderson, Jefferson County
Keith Anthony, Tuscarawas County
Casey Miller, Tuscarawas County
Anthony Diana, Stark County

HARRISON COAL & RECLAMATION HISTORICAL PARK 
ANNUAL MEETING

MARCH 7, 2020

11AM


HARRISON COUNTY HISTORY OF COAL MUSEUM
200 EAST MARKET STREET CADIZ, OHIO 

ELECTION OF OFFICERS & DIRECTORS
MEMBERSHIP MEETING
REVIEW & DISCUSS PLANS
REVIEW & DISCUSS FUNDRAISING
COMMITTEES 
Machinery maintenance, restorations, & projects
AND MORE.

Anyone interested in being a officer, director, being on a committee, or volunteering is urged to attend. Please consider attending, sharing ideas, becoming a member, being a officer, director, volunteer, or being on a committee. If you are unavailable to attend and have ideas you would like to share, have a fundraiser idea, like to volunteer, be on a committee, a member interested in being a officer, or director feel free to send a message to www.facebook.com/hcrhp messenger, or email info@hcrhp.org, 

The Harrison County History Of Coal Museum is located in the lower level of the Puskarich Public Library. Meeting will be held in the large meeting room. 


Videos will be shown in the museums theater room form 9:15am -10:45 and during any open times.  

We will break for lunch.  We normally go to a near by restaurant.  We are considering having lunch brought into the meeting room this year.

Monthly Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park membership meetings are currently held the first Tuesday at the Harrison County Visitors Center 143 South Main Street Cadiz, Ohio @ 6:30pm.  

740-312-5385 

www.hcrhp.org, www.facebook.com/hcrhp, www.coalpark.org 

The Historical Construction Equipment Association -Ohio Valley Chapter,  Antique Caterpillar Machinery Owners Club-Chapter 22, and the Old Construction & Mining  Equipment Show will be holding meetings in the afternoon if time allows before the museum 
closes.  

​26th Annual Dinner-Auction


Because of scheduling problems, 2020’s Dinner-Auction will be held at the Hopedale VFD Social Hall 103 Firehouse Lane Hopedale, OH. The Dinner-Auction will be held on May 9th with doors opening at 4:30pm., dinner at 5:30pm, followed by speaker, and the auction at 7:30pm. The guest speaker will be Chris Runyan President of the Ohio Contractors Association.  Something new at the event, will be a “Chinese Auction”. Tickets are $20.00. For reservations or information please contact Marilyn Monzula at 740-942-3895 or Dale Davis 740-391-4135. Make checks payable to HCRHP and send to HCRHP 143 South Main St. Cadiz, OH 43907. More details will be available in the future.   Be sure to visit www.hcrhp.org, www.facebook.com/hcrhp, and coalpark.org

The 2020 Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park calendars are ready for purchase. Locally, they can be purchased for $10.00 each at  the Puskarich Public Library 200 E Market St., Cadiz, OH and at the Harrison Visitor Center 143 S. Main St., Cadiz. OH. The 2020 calendars feature the Marion made #5561 “C” 40 cubic yard shovel, “The Wasp”. It began operation in 1949. The Wasp was assembled near the  Duncanwood railroad siding.  This calendar was sponsored by the Harrison Co. Tourism Council, Leonard and Dolly Ferraro, Sue Adams, Kelley Michelli and Marilyn Monzula. 

Visit our Facebook page for information on past calendars and other items available
www.facebook.com/pg/HCRHP/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2655825281142904

​Reminder: 25th Annual Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park Dinner-Auction "Life &Times of Big Muskie/ Partial auction list.

Just a reminder for those that had made reservations or need to make reservations that the 25th Annual Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park will be held May 11, 2019 at Sally Buffalo Park's Wallace Lodge 100 COLLAGE WAY or 43000 INDUSTRIAL PARK RD, CADIZ, OHIO. This is a reminder for those that had made reservations as far back as February that the event is this Saturday and those who need to make them please get your reservations made.

Doors will open at 5PM, Dinner will begin at 6 PM, Auction will start around 8pm.

Dinner followed by keynote speaker Steve Hook, Retired Hook will speak and do a PowerPoint presentation about the life & times of Central Ohio Coal Company's Big Muskie the worlds largest dragline ever built. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the dedication of Big Muskie held May 22, 1969. THE CENTRAL OHIO COAL COMPANY IS FAMOUS FOR HAVING BIG MUSKIE THE WORLDS LARGEST WALKING DRAGLINE EVER BUILT, HAVING MANY DRAGLINES, SHOVELS, & THE MUSKINGUM ELECTRIC RAILROAD

HOOK is a RETIRED CENTRAL OHIO COAL COMPANY ENGINEER & CURRENT MORGAN COUNTY, OHIO ENGINEER. HOOK AND HIS WIFE MICHELLE LIVE IN MORGAN COUNTY, OHIO. HOOK LOGGED 33 YEARS WITH AEP, VIRTIALLY ALL OF IT AT CENTRAL OHIO COAL COMPANY, WHERE HE HELD STINTS AS RECLAMATION ENGINEER, ENGINEERING SUPERINTENDENT, AND OPERATIONS SUPERINTENDENT BEFORE HIS RETIREMENT. HAS BEEN MORGAN COUNTY ENGINEER SINCE 2005 AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING OVER 342 MILES OF ROADS & 210 BRIDGES. "EVEN WHEN I WAS WORKING AT THE MINE, I ALWAYS THOUGHT I WOULD LIKE TO BE COUNTY ENGINEER" HE REMEMBERS. "WORKING AT CENTRAL OHIO COAL COMPANY WAS GREAT TRAINING," HOOK SAID. " I WAS INVOLVED WITH THE MINE'S HAUL ROADS AND I DEALT WITH STATE & FEDERAL AGENCIES, JUST LIKE I'M DOING TODAY."

Our Auctioneer this year is Steve Birney, who has done this once before for us, has been associated with Harrison Co. Farm Bureau and 4-H all his life and we look forward to him providing some fun on the auction block. Some items to auctioned are a hand crafted American Flag made of wood designed to hang on a wall by Jeff Roscoe, local chainsaw artist of JR Creations and a chainsaw sculpture of a bear with hard hat & miners light donated by local chainsaw artist Dan Kidd, of Conotton Creek Woodworks. For those planning some get away time we currently have attraction & sports related tickets that will be auctioned off for Dollywood, Grease at the Benedum Center, Amish Country Theater, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Columbus Crew, Akron Rubber Ducks, Cincinnati Reds, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, National Aviary, Mahoning Valley Scrappers, Cleveland Monsters, COSI, Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Wild Things. Other items to be auctioned off are coal related framed photos including two of the "Big Muskie", a variety of pictures, basket from Wellstone Winery, basket from Ohio Valley Winery, basket from Vineyard 22 Winery, Brewery & Barn Venue, Hanna Coal Magazines, coal mining glasses, patches, Cleveland Browns gift bag, certificate for Cherry Valley Hotel, one night stay & food voucher for Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort, certificate for Drover's Inn & Tavern, certificates for Honey Baked Ham, Certificates for Steak n Shake, certificates for Garfield's Restaurant & Pub, gift basket from Texas Roadhouse, certificates from Hog Heaven Open Flame BBQ, certificate from DiAngelo's Pizza, Pasta, & Subs/DiAngelo's Sports Bar, merchandise from the Cleveland Cavaliers, Society For Industrial Archelogy National & Northern Ohio Chapter one year membership & SIA Journals, mining & construction related stickers, a 16x16 R&F Coal decal, scale models, t-shirts with vintage machinery on them, Clark Gable post cards signed by Gable's son and stepdaughter, watch fobs, and much more! If you have items to donate, call us and bring them with you! Plus a gift bag from the Ohio Lottery to raffle off.
　
The dinner is a buffet style dinner that includes fried chicken, beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, noodles, green beans, salad, desert and drinks. Tickets are $20.00.

FOR RESERVATIONS, INFORMATION, OR DONATE ITEMS FOR AUCTION CONTACT 740-391-4135, 740-942-3895, or E-MAIL INFO@HCRHP.ORG

MAIL RESERVATIONS TO HCRHP 143 SOUTH MAIN ST, CADIZ, OH 43907. MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO HCRHP. TICKETS CAN ALSO BE PURCHASED AT THE HARRISON COUNTY VISITORS CENTER 143 SOUTH MAIN ST CADIZ, OHIO TUESDAY-SATURDAY FROM 7AM-3PM.


VISIT WWW.HCRHP.ORG, WWW.COALPARK.ORG, AND WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/HCRHP

The Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park is a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of mining, construction, agriculture, transportation, logging, and oil & gas history and equipment

Partial Donor List:

Jeff Roscoe, JR Chainsaw Carvings/Belmont Equipment Sales

Dan Kidd, Conotton Creek Woodworks

Dollywood

Akron Rubber Ducks

Cincinnati Reds

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Mahoning Valley Scrappers

Cleveland Monsters

COSI

Washington Wild Things

Wellstone Winery

Tuckahoe Equipment

Ohio Valley Winery

Columbus Crew

Cleveland Browns

Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort

Pittsburgh CLO

Amish Country Theater

Stiles Excavating & Trucking-Halfmoon, NY

Pro Football Hall of Fame

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

National Aviary

Drovers Inn & Tavern

Cherry Valley Hotel

Pittsburgh Pirates

ICR Equipment Rental, Sales, & Supply

The Ohio Lottery

Bellaire Harbor Services, LLC

RECO Equipment, Inc./RECO Rents

US SafelyGear, Inc

Shafer Equipment LLC

Eat 'N Park-St Clairsville, OH

The Honey Baked Ham Co-St Clairsville, OH

Steake 'N Shake-St Clairsville, OH

Northern Ohio Chapter Of The Society For Industrial Archelogy

Cleveland Cavaliers

DiAngelo's Pizza, Pasta, & Subs/DiAngelo's Sports Bar

Bless Your Heart Folk Art

GMS Mine Repair & Maintenance

Garfield's Restaurant & Pub-St Clairsville, OH

Cabela's

Charter Foods, Inc - Taco Bell

Soehnlen Brothers Sand & Gravel

Texas Roadhouse- New Philadelphia, OH

Hog Heaven Open Flame BBQ

Komatsu Mining Corporation

Super Duty Truck Parts & Drive Line Shop

Luber Finer

McGlaughlin Oil Company