Open May 1 - September 1, primarily primitive camping with limited electrical hook-up, 18 bed capacity cabins, showers, flush toilets. Lodge with kitchen facilities for up to 200 people. Four shelter houses, in-ground outdoor pool, large fishing pond, playground, tennis, basketball, and sand volleyball courts, horseshoe pits and softball diamond. Pets permitted if on a leash.

Banquet facility up to 200.

1090 S. Conant Road
Spencerville, Ohio 45887
419-225-6285
www.arcallencounty.org

Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center Performances:
May 12, 2012-8pm-Through the Years
June 16, 2012-8pm-Sousa Spectacular
July 21, 2012-8pm-Welcome to the Cabaret
September 8, 2012-8pm-Dance with Me

Additional Outdoor Summer Concerts:
June 24, 2012 -3pm Allen County Museum Children's Garden

P. O. Box 732 Lima, Ohio 45802
419-228-7618
www.thelacb.org

Watch for the 2012-2013 Series to be announced soon!

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2011-2012 Broadway in Lima!
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Shows include:

The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller by Chip Davis  - Friday, November 18, 2011 at 8:00pm

STOMP - Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 7:30pm

Elvis Lives! - Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 8:00pm

Cirque D'Or - Friday and Saturday, March 30-31, 2012 at 8:00 pm

5 Show Premiere Series
4 Show Classic Series

Benefits include: Best Seats-Ticket Insurance-No waiting - Discounts & Advance Notice

Call the Civic Center Box Office for Prices & more details 419-224-1552 or 1-888-377-0641

419-224-1552
www.limaciviccenter.com

Community Theatre with 6 adult and 3 youth productions each year.

2012-2013 Main Season (see Youth Season below)

July 13-22, 2012
The Secret Garden (Musical)

August 10-12, 2012-Fundraiser
A Grand Night For Singing-A Rodgers & Hammerstein Revue

September 14-23, 2012
Of Mice Of Men

November 23, December 1-2, 2012
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

January 11-20, 2013
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March 8-17, 2012
The Dixie Swim Club

May 10-19, 2013
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

2012-2013 McDonald's Youth Theatre

October 19-21, 2012
Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island

February 8-10, 2013
The Elevator Family

April 12-14, 2013
Disney's Aladdin Jr.

Call 419-223-8866 for ticket information or visit Visitor Info, Calendar of Events for ticket details.

Encore Theatre
991 North Shore Drive, Lima
419-223-8866
fax: 800-944-1441
www.amiltellers.org

Square Fair is Allen County's community arts festival. This event will offer two days of entertainment, food, children’s and adults' hands-on activities, and art exhibitions, fine arts and crafts, farmers market and homespun crafts, along with many new events designed to offer something for everyone. Non-stop entertainment will begin at Noon on Friday and continue through Saturday at Midnight. Please visit the website www.squarefairlima.com for up-to-date information.

Lima's Town Square
www.squarefairlima.com

Shannon Theatre
119 S. Main Street
Bluffton, Ohio 45817
419-358-1141
www.shannontheatre.com 

October 8, 2011 730pm
Classical Triumphs
Lima native Paul Barnes triumphantly returns to the stage to celebrate the bicentennial of Fran Liszt's birth with the stunning and emotional Piano Concerto No. 2. The opening gala begins joyously with guest conductor Clyde Rauch leading the orchestra in a bouyant polka, and concludes with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, as remarkable for its grandeur and beauty as for its historic boldness.

November 12, 2011 730pm
Scaling Infinity
The Lima Symphony Chorus opens a concert of transcendent musical beauty with Ralph Vaughan Williams' exquisitely sweet and tender Serenade to Music. Celebrate the glories of childhood innocence, the struggles of adulthood and the final assent to the infinite reaches of heaven with Strauss' tone poem, Tod und Verklarung.

December 10, 2011 730pm
Bells, Brass and Bows
Experience the wonder of the holiday pops concert as the Lima Symphony Chorus and special guest Shannon O'Neill join them with sacred carols, timeless classics and sentimental holiday favorites sure to add joy, magic and treasured memories to your family's tradition.

December 31, 2011 7:30pm
New Year's Eve in Las Vegas: Simply Sinatra with Steve Lippia
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...unless it's music. On New Year's Eve, the Lima Symphony Orchestra joins "the Chairman of the Board" with Simply Sinatra. Acclaimed Sinatra interpreter Steve Lippia will fly you to the moon with his crooning styles and seductive singing. There's no better way to pay tribute to the classically cool style of Old Blue Eyes than with the youthful charisma, swinging stage presence and sumblime vocals of Steve Lippia as he performs Sinatra's biggest hits from The Best is Yet To Come and My Way to I've Got You Under My Skin and New York, New York. Don't miss a beat.

January 21, 2012-Trinity United Methodist Church, Lima 730pm
January 22, 2012-St. Mary's, Defiance 4pm
Mozart by Candlelight
Hundreds of glistening candles, stunning sacred spaces and the magnificence of Mozart combine for a truly spectacular evening.
Experience music the way Mozart's music was written to be performed, by the warm glow of candlelight in a glorious church.

February 18, 2012 730pm
The Romance of Spring
Join the Symphony for an exhilarating breath of springtime romance, beginning with the exuberant vitality of Berlioz's Le Corsaire Overture. Piano soloist and winner of the 2009 Friends of the Symphony Young Artists Competition Scott Cuellar will delight with the 24 variations of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini, by turns playful, melancholy, militaristic and dramatic, and characterized by a soaring, soulful melody and structural ingenuity. The tour de force of Romantic composers concludes with Schumann's Spring Symphony, a buoyant, exultant composition written soon after his marriage for his "spring of love".

March 4, 2012 3pm
Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Classical Kids: A Family Concert
Imagine Ludwig van Beethoven moving in to the apartment upstairs! The world-famous production of Beethoven Lives Upstairs features a lively exchange of letters between a young boy and his uncle about the "madman" who as moved upstairs. Audiences will be captivated by more than thirty-five excerpts of the master's music, including the Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, and the great Fifth and Nineth Symphonies. The music is magically woven into the drama as two actors share their anecdotes and observations based on true incidents from the composer's life. Presenting history, drama, music and fun, this engaging, fast-paced concert will captivate and entertain children and adults alike.

April 21, 2012 730pm
Lift Every Voice
The Lima Symphony Chorus and the Bowling Green State University Choral Society will join the orchestra as they transport the audience to the 13th century for a tale of war, treason and the power of the common people united by a hero with Prokofiev's renowned cantata, Alexander Nevsky. They conclude the season with the chromatic patterns of Saint-Saens Organ Symphony, known for its virtuoso piano passages, brilliant orchestral writing and the sound of a cathedral-sized pipe organ, all sweeping to a dramatic finish.

Log on to stay in tune with LSO: www.LimaSymphony.com
Or call 419-222-5701 for ticket/seating and group rate information.

133 N. Elizabeth St.
P.O. Box 1651
Lima, Ohio 45802
Lima Symphony Orchestra
133 N. Elizabeth Street, P.O. Box 1651, Lima, Ohio 45802
419-222-5701
www.limasymphony.com

Regal Cinemas American Mall Stadium 12
2830 West Elm St.
Lima, OH 45805
419-999-9125
www.fandango.com

Fridays between Mid-May and September, except Square Fair weekend, in Lima's Town Square in front of Artspace/Lima. 6:30pm to 9:30pm. For more information on musical entertainment visit www.artspacelima.com or www.rallyinthesquare.com

Rally in the Square
Town Square, Corner of Market & Main St.
419-221-1721
www.artspacelima.com

Contemporary art has a home in the Victorian-era mercantile building renovated by ArtSpace/Lima on Town Square in the heart of downtown Lima. There's always something new in the changing gallery exhibitions featuring local and regional artists working in all media. In the Gallery Shoppe, original artwork including paintings, jewelry, ceramics, glass, and cards by the area's most respected artists is on display as well as other unique art replicas. Many art enrichment classes, workshops, and special events are offered throughout the year for art-lovers of all ages.
Annual Spring Art Show, High School Art Invitational and Rallies in the Square!

Banquet capacity for 70.

Artspace/Lima
65-67 Town Square Lima, OH 45801
419-222-1721
www.artspacelima.com
Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday 10am-2pm
Closed Sunday and Monday

Eastgate Dollar Movies 4
2100 Harding Highway
Lima, Ohio 45804
419-331-3454
www.fandango.com 

The dramatically expanded and redesigned Allen County Museum is a premier attraction for history lovers of all ages. Railroad buffs will enjoy seeing the 1925 Shay Locomotive, Lima City Street Railway motorman's cab and interurban exhibits. The Children's Discover Center offers hands-on activities for kids including a general store, one-room schoolhouse, Native American wigwam and large model railroad layout. Whether your interest is natural history, the Civil War, transportation, or John Dillinger's gang, you'll find it all at the Allen County Museum. The institution also offers the Elizabeth M. MacDonell Memorial Library, a favorite among family history researchers, and the John H. Keller Railroad Archives featuring thousands of photographs, builders' prints, and Lima Locomotive Works documents. Families and individuals welcome year round. Bus and group tours welcome...call to schedule your visit. AAM accredited.

620 W. Market Street, Lima
419-222-9426
1:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday-Friday
1:00-4:00 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
Closed Mondays and national holidays
www.allencountymuseum.org
Tour Guides available for pre-arranged tours. No admission fee. Donations welcomed.

This garden has grown to include over 30 mini-themed gardens and child-inspired works of art, with historical elements which relate to Allen County's rich history. It is an interactive green oasis for "children" of all ages! This is a privately funded effort to establish a public garden space designed for children.

The Children's Garden offers hands-on educational opportunities to learn about gardening and horticulture and provides children, families and the community with an attractive gathering place.

Garden Location:
620 W. Market Street
Lima, Ohio 45801
Allen County Museum Complex
419-302-4234
Open May through October, dawn to dusk

A community arts organization specializing in arts education programs and events. Located in Memorial Hall.
Close to 45 years of providing arts for the people of the greater Lima area. We bring you free Concerts in the Parks every summer Sunday; the Art Park program for area students; artist residencies in the school; annual Shakespeare productions; concerts, exhibits and some really great parties!

P.O Box 1124
Lima, Ohio 45802
419-233-3079
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Folklore museum about the opening of the Miami-Erie Canal and the birth of Delphos. The Canal Commission has an archival collection from the entire historic period of the region, from an 1863 note to letters home from the Ohio 116th to hundreds of manuscript pages once used by the Paul Whiteman Band. There is an 1846 log house reconstructed in the museum, canal related artifacts from tiny bottles filled with abandoned patient medicines to the parts of the "Marguerite" that had been pulled from the Miami-Erie Canal in 1989 by 57 Delphos youngsters.
Walking tours of historic homes and buildings and refreshments available upon request.

Groups by appointment.
Admission: Free
www.canalcommission.com
241 N. Main Street
Delphos, Ohio 45833
419-695-7737
Thursdays 9am-11am
Saturdays & Sundays 1pm-3pm
Groups and Special Tours: By Appointment
Closed Holidays

The new home of the Museum of Postal History is just a few blocks north of its original location. The transportation room includes several antique vehicles with murals of Delphos that correspond with the years these vehicles were used.
Also find a re-creation of a Railway Post Office railcar similar to the one used on the AC & Y railroad that traveled from Delphos to Youngstown. Learn about the construction of the Delphos Post Office which was influenced by the town's egg hatchery and mop factory. There are over 100,000 stamps on display from all over the world. The Media Center allows you to see numerous artifacts that are not on displayat the moment. The "Kids Zone" with its miniature working post office is presently under construction. Meeting space and catering is available for special programs. The building is also home to the Delphos Area Art Guild.

Groups by appointment.
Admission: Free/Donations Accepted
Special luncheons or dinners may be held in the transportations room. Call for details.

Delphos Postal Museum
339 N. Main Street
Delphos, Ohio 45833
Phone: 419-303-5482
www.postalhistorymuseum.org

www.postalhistorymuseum.com

Saturdays 10am-2pm
Groups and Special Tours by Appointment

The Welsh Community Museum was established to serve as a center for Welsh culture, local history and genealogy.
Welsh culture, language, religion and customs have played an important role in the cultural fabric of Northwestern Ohio since the early 19th century.
Gomer, where the museum is located, was established in the 1830's by Welsh immigrants. It sits along the banks of the Ottawa River and Pike Run.
Visit this center for Welsh culture and see memorabilia, artifacts, papers and pictures perpetuating the understanding of the Welsh heritage and culture so important to Northwest Ohio.

7365 Gomer Road
Gomer, Ohio 45809
Located directly across from the Gomer Church of Christ
419-642-2538 or 419-642-5911
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www.welsh-society.org
Open 2nd and 4th Sundays of the Month 130pm-4pm
Also by appointment

Harrod Railroad Park

See and touch the Shay Locomtive, manufactured in September 1905 at the Lima Locomotive Works.
S.R. 309 east of Lima, approximately 10 miles
South on Napoleon Road for 2 miles
Napoleon Road
Harrod, Ohio 45850
419-648-7032
Open all year during daylight hours. Call for tours and information.

Harrod Veterans Memorial Park

The Veterans Memorial Park lies adjacent to the Railroad Heritage Park and displays a a 155mm M114 A2 Howitzer Cannon, an Anchor from the USS Texas, an M60 A3 Battle Tank and a UH-1 Huey Helicopter. The park was created in honor and memory of all Veterans who served in the United States armed forces.
Both Veterans Memorial and Railroad Heritage Parks played a key role in attracting the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure in 2000.
They were also chosen by the State of Ohio to participate in the GOAL (Great Ohio Adventures in Learning)program.

Napoleon Road
Harrod, Ohio 45850
419-648-7032
Open all year during daylight hours. Call for tours and information.

The Lima Fire Fighters Memorial Museum is dedicated to those who presently serve, as well as those who have served since 1865, protecting the citizens of Lima. It is to these more than 600 fire fighters that we pay tribute. 

Dedicated on Memorial Day 1999, the Lima Fire Fighters Museum houses memorabilia from Lima's fire fighting history. From a 19th century horse-drawn steam pumper to the hero-inscribed honor walk, the museum perpetuates this great history of selfless duty.

You can learn about the heroic individuals who have served the Lima community for the last 150 years. View photos, newspaper accounts, even original equipment used to fight some of Lima's most devastating fires.

New statue added in July 2009 depicts a firefighter holding a child, symbolizing a rescue, each officer's hope when a person is trapped in a fire. In the other hand, he holds the helmet of a fallen fellow firefighter, representing the thing every firefighter hopes against.

Open for outdoor viewing from sun up til sun down. For tour arrangements call the fire chief's office at 419-221-5164 or the CVB offices at 419-222-6075.

Lincoln Park
1139 E. Elm Street
Lima, Ohio 45805
419-221-5164
www.limafiremuseum.org

On display at the Lincoln Park John H. Keller Memorial Railway Exhibit is a Nickel Plate S-3, 2-8-4, #779 Berkshire, the NKP caboose #1091, and the NKP Business Car #5. The 779 was the last of the Berks steam engines built for the Nickel Plate in Lima, Ohio at the Lima Locomotive Works in 1949.
The Lincoln Park Railway Exhibit is a proud participant and feature in the Great Ohio Adventures in Learning program created by the state of Ohio.

Open for outdoor viewing from sun up til sun down.
Guided tours by appointment.
For more information contact the City Parks and Recreation Department at 419-221-5195.

1139 E. Elm Street
Lima, Ohio 45804
419-221-5195
www.cityhall.lima.oh.us