Director Breckbill, a teacher at Central Christian High School, grew up in Canton and Louisville and graduated from high school in Kitchener, Ontario. He returned to Ohio in 1985. Leora Garber is a board member who serves as volunteer coordinator, keeper of membership lists and dues collector. It had its grand opening in 1994 on the 175th anniversary of the arrival of the first settlers from the Sonnenberg area of Switzerland. There are many exhibits showing community and family life styles.
Items range from bonnets and sewing machines to old panorama photos and sale posters.
Near the entrance is a table with the usual questions printed on blocks. The answers are found by turning the blocks over. A new display is being processed on three Mennonite churches in the Kidron area. Sonnenberg church on Hackett Road was the first. It was the mother church for Salem Mennonite on Zuercher Road in 1886 and for the Kidron Mennonite in 1936.