Take a Virtual Tour with CLIO

Through Clio, you can take a virtual tour of the Fillmore Historical Mueum Park even though we are closed right now due to Covid- 19.  

Just go to theClio.com and put in our name or the zipcode, 93015 and then click on "Take the Tour" in the upper right hand corner and see what we are all about.

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Clio is an educational website and mobile application that guides the public to thousands of historical and cultural sites throughout the United States. Built by scholars for public benefit, each entry includes a concise summary and useful information about a historical site, museum, monument, landmark, or other site of cultural or historical significance. In addition, “time capsule” entries allow users to learn about historical events that occurred around them. Each entry offers turn-by-turn directions as well as links to relevant books, articles, videos, primary sources, and credible websites.

Clio offers a compelling intellectual challenge as professional historians work with local history experts to create and vet entries in an open digital environment. Ambitious in scope, Clio allows scholars and their students to publish humanities scholarship using an innovative digital format that will instantly reach a broad audience in ways that cannot be replicated by traditional forms of publishing. We believe that there is something powerful that occurs when our sense of the past connects with our sense of place. We hope that you will use Clio to connect with the history and culture that surrounds you.

Little Free Library Comes to the Museum

The Fillmore Historical Museum at 340 Main Street is happy to be the site of the one of the Little Free Libraries in Fillmore.

Built by Jack Stethem, a Museum Board of Directors member, it is a replica of the 1906 Ira and Kate Hinckley House which is part of the Museum Historical Park.  Dr. Hinckley was one of the first dentists in Fillmore and his son, Lawrence Hinckley, was a renowned local artist and ran the Artists’ Barn Studio.

The late and sorely missed, Marie Wren started the Little Free Library initiative in Fillmore with a model of Fillmore’s Southern Pacific depot, built by Jack Stethem. The Depot is also one of the buildings at the Historical Park.

Little Free Library is an international nonprofit organization that inspires a love of reading, builds community, and sparks creativity by fostering neighborhood book exchanges around the world.  Stop by and “take a book, leave a book.”  More information on Little Free Libraries can be found at