General Lew Wallace Study & Museum

Address
200 Wallace Ave.
Crawfordsville, IN 47933 United States Get Directions
Phone 765-362-5769
Website www.ben-hur.com

Events at this venue

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  • American Battlefield Trust – Park Day 2025

    General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

        Each year, thousands of history enthusiasts, community-minded citizens, families, Boy and Girl Scouts, ROTC units and more come together in an effort to help keep our nation’s heritage not only preserved, but pristine. Activities are chosen by each participating site and can include building trails, raking leaves, painting signs, putting up fences and […]

  • Hoosier Author’s Book Club – Hawaii and a Revolution by Mary Hannah Krout

    General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

      The Hoosier Authors Book Club for 2025 begins on Thursday, April 17 with Hawaii and a Revolution by Mary Hannah Krout. Krout, a native of Crawfordsville, details her personal experience as a journalist and correspondent for the Chicago Inter-Ocean covering the 1893 revolution in Hawaii. The book is available for purchase here. We hope you can join us!

  • Holiday Tea & Fashion Show

    General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States +1 more

    This year's Holiday Tea & Fashion Show will be held on Friday, December 6, 2024 with the theme being "St. Nicholas" The event is a major fundraiser for the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum and will be hosted at the Elston Homestead at 400 East Pike Street. Visitors may attend the holiday event any […]

  • Hoosier Authors Book Club – The Magic Garden, Gene Stratton-Porter

    General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

    Hoosier Authors Book Club - The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter   Physical copies of The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter will not be available for loan. The kindle version of the book is available for .99c here.

  • Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series – A Sweet Strangeness Fills My Heart: The Journals of Sallie Independence Foster 1861 – 1881by Dolores Hydock and Bobby Horton

    General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

    Renowned storyteller Dolores Hydock and musician Bobby Horton will give their presentation of A Sweet Strangeness Fills My Heart: The Journals of Sallie Independence Foster 1861-1887. This performance, based on Sallie's diaries, papers, and letters from her brothers off at war, presents a funny, touching, and uniquely personal look at the life and times that Sallie shared […]

  • Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series – Athens of Indiana: The Pre-War Years by Beth Swift

    General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

    Former Wabash College Archivist Beth Swift will give a lecture called Athens of Indiana: The Pre-War Years about Montgomery County prior to the Civil War. Included in her talk will be the Wabash College Cadets, a militia formed of local college students that trained alongside Lew Wallace's Montgomery Guards militia. The talk will be held in the […]

  • 17th Annual TASTE of Montgomery County

    General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

    Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 12:00 - 9:00 pm. Please join us to experience the flavors of local Montgomery County vendors while enjoying music on the Historic General Lew Wallace Study & Museum grounds! For more information, please visit the TASTE of Montgomery County Website.

  • Hoosier Authors Book Club – You Should See Me in a Crown

    General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

    You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson See https://www.ben-hur.com/programs/hoosier-authors-book-club/ for more information