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The Roseville Historical Society was established in 1998. Individual membership is $10 per year. Membership runs April 15 to April 14 of each year.

Our mission is to preserve, protect, and share the history of the people, businesses, and industries of Roseville, Ohio. Membership includes free admission to the monthly (May through October) First Sunday Open House, free admission to the annual Heritage Day, and a subscription to the Roseville Legend, which is published quarterly. Please mail your membership dues to: Roseville Historical Society, P.O. Box 14, Roseville, Ohio 43777. Please do not mail membership dues to the street address.

11/02/2026

On the left, a group of men who worked on the round kiln at the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company and on the right, several men loading the round kiln. Loyd McCoy is the man in the black hat in the photo on the right. Photo on the left provided by Mari McLean and the photo on the right provided by Chiquita Prestwood.

10/31/2026

Happy Hallowe'en from the Roseville Historical Society.

10/31/2026

A couple of early photos from inside the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company. The photos are undated. Photos provided by Chiquita Prestwood.

10/28/2026

The Roseville Ohio Pottery Worker's Registry has been undated on the Roseville Historical Society website. https://rosevilleohiohistory.org/registry-of-rosevilles.../

If you would like to add a name to the registry, please complete the request form and the name will be added with the next update.

10/26/2026

During the 1967 Crooksville-Roseville Pottery Festival Klemm Ungemach showed visitors touring the Ungemach Pottery some of their latest pottery designs.

10/23/2026

Nelson McCoy Pottery decorator Edith Stine demonstrates her decorating skills for a group of visitors at the first Crooksville-Roseville Pottery Festival. This event was held August 5-7 in 1966. More than 2,000 people attended during the three-day pottery festival.

10/23/2026

The Alpine Pottery was started by Lee and Debbie Ungemach in 1987. As the business grew, Alpine Pottery produced more than 100 different hand-decorated stoneware items. The ad on the left was from the Crooksville-Roseville Pottery Festival in 1997 as they celebrated their 10th anniversary. On the right is a display of Alpine Pottery.

10/21/2026

In the photo on the left, Robinson Ransbottom pottery worker Marion McCune (right) and another pottery worker demonstrate the manufacture of a 10 gallon stoneware jar during the Crooksville-Roseville Pottery Festival in July 1975. In the photo on the upper right, McCune cuts slabs of clay and hammers them into single pieces for die that will spin and jigger clay into a jar, lower right McCune turns the lip of large jar by hand.

10/18/2026

A couple more photos of employees at the Nelson McCoy Pottery hard at work. Photos provided by Chiquita Prestwood.

10/17/2026

A group photo of Brush Pottery employees taken August 22, 1933. Do you recognize any of these employees? Photo provided by Chiquita Prestwood.

Address

140 S. Main Street
Roseville, OH
43777

Telephone

(740) 697-7984

Website

http://www.flickr.com/photos/historyrosevilleohio/, http://www.rosevilleohiohistory.org/

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