Warren County Convention and Visitors Bureau

http://www.ohioslargestplayground.com
The Warren County Convention and Visitors Bureau is a professional destination marketing organization that uses its resources and influence to increase the number of year-round visitors to Warren County. Warren County is Ohio’s Largest Playground! With easy access from interstates 71 and 75, Warren County is the perfect hub-and spoke destination, where visitors can enjoy a greater possibility of activities within a 30-mile radius than anywhere else in Ohio.
800–791–4fun (4386), 513–204–1900.

Lebanon area Chamber of Commerce

http://www.lebanonchamber.org
If you’re looking for a friendly community that has worked hard to preserve its past while making great strides to become a benchmark for technology, industry, and community development, then Lebanon welcomes you.
513–932–1100
20 N. Broadway, Lebanon, Ohio 45036

Master Gardeners of Warren County

http://www.warren.osu.edu/master-gardeners
The Master Gardener Program provides intensive training in horticulture to interested gardeners, who then volunteer their time assisting with educational programs and activities for Ohio residents through their local Ohio State University Extension. Working with county Extension personnel, Master Gardeners provide such educational services to their communities as: developing community or demonstration gardens, providing gardening activities with children, senior citizens or disabled persons. Work often includes answering gardening questions from the public, conducting plant clinics, helping to beautify the community, and many other horticultural activities and services.
320 East Silver Street, Lebanon, Ohio 45036.

Members of the Master Gardeners of Warren County work to maintain the prehistoric garden at the Museum at Fort Ancient.

Boy Scouts of America

http://danbeard.org
The Boy Scout community has become an important partner for Fort Ancient. The scouting community has performed over 50,000 hours of community service during the last 19 years. In August of 2009 Fort Ancient hit a milestone with over 15,000 scouts camping in exchange for community service in nearly two decades. That same month the 104th Eagle Scout Project was successfully completed. Scouts have cleared over 2 miles of the earthen walls six times, placed over 100 tons of limestone or woodchips on the trails and pathways, created new trails and renovated old ones, built 60 picnic tables, 50 benches, as well as numerous blue bird houses, bat houses. They have built information stations, boardwalks, water bars for the trail system, and a variety of educational trail guides, artifacts for the classroom, and reconstructed wigwams, gardening scare crow platforms, a dug out canoe, and a gardening trellis. The Boy Scout community is a true friend to Fort Ancient.

American Indian Communities in Southwest Ohio

The increased awareness of Fort Ancient is due in part to the wonderful networking with the American Indian groups of the Ohio area. Native Americans and people of native descent come to Fort Ancient to offer their time and talents to help educate others about Ohio’s rich Native past. The Grand Mothers offer monthly teachings or demonstrate a traditional craft at the museum. Native communities often gather for a weekend and help with community service and perform personal and tribal ceremonies. The annual Fort Ancient Celebration: A Gathering of Four Directions has grown from a small gathering to a major Celebration, one of the largest in southwest Ohio. Native communities and individuals still use this sacred ground today as place of personal spiritual retreat.