Baker, Florida
Visitors at the Baker Block Museum are seeing a new face on the block. The North Okaloosa Historical Association board of directors appointed Baker resident Peggy Hardy as the museum’s new curator.
Hardy is replacing Jeanette Henderson, who served as the museum’s curator since it’s opening in 1996 and was also a founding member of the historical associations board of directors.
“I’m excited to work with the museum, I just love genealogy and historical research,” Hardy said. “I didn’t realize the amount of history in north Okaloosa County until I started volunteering at the museum.”
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The Baker Block Museum is located at 1307 Georgia Avenue, which is at the intersection of State Roads 4 and 189, at the traffic light in Baker.
The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Friday, and the third Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is free.
The museum, which is housed in a historic block of building constructed between 1908 and 1910, is a repository of local historical artifacts and documents, including a genealogy/local history research library and heritage park….
Read the full article in the August 10, 2010 edition of the Crestview News Bulletin.
