Annie Oakley Center Foundation

Annie Oakley Center Foundation The Annie Oakley Center Foundation supports the accurate memory of Annie Oakley and The National Annie Oakley Center at Garst Museum, Greenville, OH

From Greenville to Italy!! These Annie shirts show a mural in Greenville. It is being modeled, in Italy, by the autho...
06/02/2026

From Greenville to Italy!! These Annie shirts show a mural in Greenville. It is being modeled, in Italy, by the author of a book written in Italian about Annie’s life. Shirts are available only through the The Hive Collective , Greenville.

The fabulous new documentary short, “North Star” had its Ohio Premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival. It ...
04/30/2026

The fabulous new documentary short, “North Star” had its Ohio Premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival. It will be shown at Wayne Theater in Greenville on July 21, during “Annie Oakley Days” and then all the time at Garst Museum and The National Annie Oakley Center. We can’t wait!

03/03/2026

Thanks to Bryn Silverman and many years of research & sparkly conversations at Garst Museum, the film North Star will premiere !!

North Star reclaims Annie Oakley’s story from the canon of misrepresentation that has come to define her legacy, peeling back the curtain to reveal three researchers in rural Ohio who’ve spent decades unearthing her true story.

Feat. Brenda Arnett, Karen Besecker & Nancy Stump✨

Narrated by Dale Dickey & Will Oldham
Directed & Produced by: me!
Co-produced by:
Cinematography by:
Edited by:
Original Score:
Original Song by:
Field Producer:
Story Consultants: & Amy Carroll Post-production color & Sound: .237.louisville

This interstate stop is on target with Annie! you Governor Mike DeWine!
02/17/2026

This interstate stop is on target with Annie! you Governor Mike DeWine!

"Not guilty as to knitting". My dear Mr. Conning Tower Man:What did I hear you say? "She's a little white haired lady...
01/30/2026

"Not guilty as to knitting".

My dear Mr. Conning Tower Man:

What did I hear you say? "She's a little white haired lady who wears spectacles and knits". I am guilty as to the first two charges owing to two trains trying to pass on the same track, but did not succeed. My hair turned white in seventeen hours from the injuries received, and the result was five operations. That was in 1901; and in 1911, blood poison caused by infection from a slight operation by one of the best known specialists in the country. Four days with a temperature one hundred and seven; the result, right eye affected so as to impair sight for reading fine print or doing fancy work, of which I am very fond."

Not guilty as to knitting. I graduated from the knitting school at the age of eight years. That was when I started to shoot. Since then I have not handled the knitting needle. So your correspondent... could not see at close range when he mistook the embroidering for knitting.

Excerpt of letter in the NY Tribune, February 8, 2017, signed Annie Oakley.

Annie Goes a Coasting..."riding with great speed down hill". Oh, that Annie!
01/05/2026

Annie Goes a Coasting..."riding with great speed down hill". Oh, that Annie!

Annie by the numbers: 99 years ago, Annie Oakley and husband Frank Butler passed away, 18 days apart, after 50 years o...
11/21/2025

Annie by the numbers: 99 years ago, Annie Oakley and husband Frank Butler passed away, 18 days apart, after 50 years of marriage. They are buried 8 miles north of Greenville OH. They are shown here with Miss Annie Oakley 2024, Madison Werner, Miss Annie Oakley 2025 Brooklyn Dillman and 1st runner up Lexis Shoop following the Annie Oakley Festival Shooting contest where they placed a memorial wreath.

In failing health, Annie came to Greenville where she died on November 3, 1926. The immediate cause of death was given as pernicious anemia. Frank, visiting niece Fern in Michigan, died on November 21, with the death certificate listing 'senility'. Annie's remains were cremated. Frank and Annie Oakley Butler were buried together in the family plot at Brock Cemetery.

Annie making dramatic news, Oct. 4, 1902. Garst Museum and The National Annie Oakley Center
09/30/2025

Annie making dramatic news, Oct. 4, 1902. Garst Museum and The National Annie Oakley Center

09/03/2025

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Greenville, OH
45331

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