The Museum’s Early Years
After its initial restoration in 1948, the Overfield Tavern served as a gathering place for the Hobart family and guests of the family-owned enterprise, Hobart Brothers Company. In 1965, the Troy Historical Society was founded and began using the building as a museum.
The museum as it appeared in the late 1960s.
Virginia G. Boese, president of the Troy Historical Society, served as curator of the Overfield Tavern Museum from the beginning until 1980. She established its basic operating principles and procedures and, along with her husband Carl, kept the museum running, providing curatorial oversight, training volunteers, conducting tours, and researching the collection and the building itself.
It was in these early days that much of the museum’s collection was gathered, reflecting life on the Ohio frontier as it was interpreted in the 1960s.
