History & Heritage

Dogwood Pass is a family friendly attraction and living history museum, open to the public on most weekend throughout the year. A crew of family and friends have built a “model” old west town with everything from a chapel, to a jail, and a saloon.

Guests can enjoy an afternoon exploring the town, interacting with actors and animals, exploring shops with local vendors, and watching live performances and reenactments.

Dogwood Pass is also home to the Roy Rogers Memory’s Museum.

722 Adams Road, Beaver, OH 45613

The Pike Heritage Museum Foundation has continued to preserve Pike County’s history, from the days of the first settlers to the present.

Stop by the museum to see displays and relics from different eras of Pike County’s past.

The museum is housed in a former German Evangelical Church, built in 1859, and still retains much of its original appearance including a pipe organ from 1917.

Open from 1pm to 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

110 South Market Street, Waverly, OH 45690

Pike Heritage Museum

Bristol Village Railroad Museum and Model Train Depot

At the Train Depot, visitors can enjoy exploring through expansive model train displays. The displays feature small and large-scale replica model trains which expand between rooms and event to the outdoors into a beautiful garden.

After admiring the attention to detail of the model trains, guests can explore then Museum next door to learn more about the history of the railroad including unique and interesting artifacts and memorabilia.

The museum is organized by the Scioto Valley Model Railroad Club and open on Monday’s from 1-3pm.

Private tours can be scheduled at 740-835-8002.

339 Robin Road, Waverly, OH 45690

The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, or the "A-Plant" as the locals refer to it, was constructed by the United States Atomic Energy Commission to provide enriched uranium for the nation’s nuclear defense system and later for use in commercial nuclear power reactors. The plant enriched uranium from 1954 until 2001 through a process called gaseous diffusion. The 3,700-acre site near Piketon, Ohio is owned and managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

The gaseous diffusion process is no longer operational and DOE is conducting an extensive environmental cleanup of the site through a project called Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D). A virtual museum was developed to preserve information, data, photos, films, videos and oral histories as the site goes through D&D.

DOE and Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth also offer a special opportunity to participate in a limited number of public tours. Participants will enjoy a guided history tour of the site and get a close look at activities on the site. All of the tours are be held on the third Saturday of the month, July through October.