Cuyahoga Valley Historical Museum

The Cuyahoga Valley Historical Museum is a branch of the Peninsula Library and Historical Society organized for the purpose of interpreting and promoting the area's history through permanent and special exhibits. The Cuyahoga Valley Historical Museum is housed on the second floor of the historic Boston Township Hall, which was built in 1887. For more information click here to visit the museum section of the site. This exhibit brings together a variety of our holdings which uncover famous personalities, extraordinary events, and notable places from our community’s unique history within six categories. These categories include: Artists, Inventors, Events, Celebrities, Sensations, and Disasters. Some of our featured items include: major league baseball player Scotty Ingerton, the Peninsula Gold Hunt of 1945, PVC inventor Waldo Semon, the headless Civil War Monument, the Flood of 1913, local artists Walt Scott, William Sommer, and Honoré Guilbeau Cooke and the Barnum and Bailey Circus parading through the streets of Peninsula. Please feel free to stop by and view our exhibit!