Upcoming Events


Date/Time Event/Description

November 29, 2024
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

JCHC Light-Up Night - A Christmas Celebration

Join us the evening after Thanksgiving, Friday November 29th, 5PM – 8PM for Bowdish Light-Up Night.  Christmas Treat for the Kids!!!
Featuring Santa’s Polar Express, Tommy Train and animated Ice Skating Rink!!!
This is a  special celebration for kids and adults alike, continuing the tradition of the Charles Bowdish Miniatures Show at the Bowdish House every Christmas since 1919.

Donations Accepted and Appreciated! 

 

 

 

 

 

 




December 14, 2024
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

HISTORIC CHURCH TOUR

The 2024 Holiday Historic Church Tour is again a FREE walking tour sponsored by Jefferson County Historical Society and Historic Brookville, Inc with the participation of area churches. This tour celebrates the impressive array of Brookville’s downtown churches. Here is an opportunity to view their dramatic interiors and learn of their rich histories and architecture. .The churches are decorated for the holidays and will welcome our tour group for a brief 15-20 minute program. Enjoy a pipe organ played by Christina Shrewsbury, or participate in a holiday sing-along with the Brookville High School Chamber Singers. You may enter or leave this FREE TOUR at any point. Parking is available at or near the Presbyterian Church.   Refreshments will be available at the final stop.

Tour Schedule:

1:00pm     Presbyterian Church – Main & White Streets

1:30pm     First Methodist Church – 205 Jefferson Street 

2:00pm.    Grace Lutheran Church – 160 Franklin Avenue 

2:30pm     First Baptist Church – 101 Main Street 

3:00pm     Holy Trinity Episcopal Church – 62 Pickering Street 

3:30pm     Immaculate Conception Church – 129 Graham Avenue

4:00pm     Evangelical Methodist Church – 30 South White Street

Presbyterian Church.  Postcard circa 1912. 

FIrst United Methodist Church. Photo 1912.




December 21, 2024
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

BOWDISH CHRISTMAS TRADITION

A Bowdish Christmas Tradition since 1919!   Saturday December 21st, Noon – 3:00 PM

For 105 years this Charles Bowdish Miniatures Diorama has enchanted kids of all ages.  Add to that the Model R.R.,
with 5 trains running different directions on multiple tracks, whistling down the trestles and smoking through the tunnels of Brookville.

Donations Appreciated!

                                                                   Simply Magic!




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