John P. Parker House

07/09/2026

🎉🏛️ Join Us for a Historic Celebration! 🏛️

The Ripley Museum is celebrating 50 years of preserving our community's rich history, and you're invited!

The Ripley Museum was chosen by the citizens of Ripley as the USA 200th Bicentennial Project for our village. It officially opened on August 1, 1976, and now, as America celebrates its 250th Anniversary, the Ripley Museum is proudly celebrating 50 years of sharing our local history!

📅 Saturday, August 1, 2026
🕐 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
📍 Ripley Museum
219 N. 2nd Street, Ripley, OH
🎀 Ribbon Cutting: 1:00 PM
🏛️ Museum Tours: 1:00–2:30 PM
🎤 Program: 2:30 PM

Enjoy a FREE Open House, explore all-new exhibits, and cool off with a free marshmallow Coke!
Come celebrate this special milestone and honor the history of Ripley while looking ahead to the next 50 years. We hope to see you there! 🇺🇸🎉

06/25/2026

Come see this monster at the John P Parker House in Ripley, OH. Yes, we are open during the construction on Front Street.

06/19/2026

06/02/2026

05/27/2026

The John Rankin House and the John P. Parker House are part of the Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative to document and interpret Underground Railroad locations across Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.

05/23/2026

Gilliland brought an antislavery faith to Red Oak Presbyterian Church in 1805. As a minister, he and his congregation sheltered and guided freedom seekers, making Red Oak a key Underground Railroad junction in southern Ohio.

Read more here: https://appalachianfreedom.com/location/red-oak/

05/21/2026

A quiet house above the Ohio River can feel ordinary for about three seconds. Then the hillside view, the lantern story, and the weight of what happened here begin to settle in, and the whole place becomes impossible to brush off.