FCHS depends on volunteers to host the museum and do a lot of the work, produce its festivals, gather history. We have 3 big festivals: Redbud Trail Rendezvous the last weekend of April, Historical Power Show third weekend of June, and Trail of Courage Living History Festival third weekend of September. We have 4 branches: Genealogy Section that publishes Fulton County Folk Finder, Potawatomi Trail of Death Assn. that erected historical markers & highway signs on 660 mile 1838 Trail of Death from Indiana to Kansas, Fulton County Historical Power Assn. that produces the antique tractor & power show, and Blacksmiths that teach ironworking the second Saturday of each month in blacksmith shop on FCHS grounds.

Gift shop has books and crafts by local people and Indians. Rental includes 2 kitchens and 2 meeting rooms. Grunds can also be rented, including Trail of Courge area in woods by Tippecanoe River with 35 wooden booths and 2 cabins.

Founded in 1963, got 1876 Rochester Depot as first museum in 1969, bought 35 acres for site of new museum in 1985, built new museum in 1988, moved & restored 1924 round barn in 1991, moved & restored 1832 William Polke house - stagecoach inn in 1993, moved & restored 11 other buildings to create living history village called Loyal, Indiana in the next 7 years, built 40 foot addition to meeting room & reference room in 2001, built 100 foot meeting room as Richland Center Memorial Hall in 2008. All built with donations and money earned from festivals and sales of books, etc.