Thirteen Moons in 1776 – Life along Turkeyfoot Creek. New Exhibit!

As part of the America 250-Ohio celebration, a spectacular exhibit is now open at the Museum of Fulton County in Wauseon, Ohio. “Thirteen Moons in 1776 – Life along Turkeyfoot Creek,” features life throughout one year in the land we now call Fulton County.

As visitors explore the new exhibit they will travel through one year (13 lunar months), during the year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. A fictional fur trader and his wife will explain the change of seasons, the monthly lives of an Odawa village and their winter journey up the Turkeyfoot Creek, and facts about the year’s thirteen moons.

The three-dimensional, historical fiction exhibit will be laid out in 13 equal sections that, from above, resemble the back of a turtle (the Anishinaabe name for North America is Turtle Island). A timeline of colonial American events during the Revolutionary War will also run throughout the exhibit.