Fourteen students and mentors from Ambleside School in Marion visited the WCHS Museum on Friday, March 21, 2025. The students were given a complete tour of the museum and library by Curator/Coordinator Sharon Vansaghi and WCHS President Sam Lattuca. During the tour the group was presented with artifacts representing many ways of life gone by in Williamson County. The group was shown tools, housewares, medicines and clothing that would have been used from pioneer times through to the mid-20th century. In addition, the group was spoken to about early Native American life and artifacts and students, of course, always find the old jail cells interesting.

Interestingly, two young male students from the group were directly related to two of our ex-sheriffs. One was the great grandson of Sheriff Russell Oxford who was the last sheriff to occupy the old jail building in 1972 and served from 1970 to 1978 and again from 1990 to 1994. The other student was a great nephew of Sheriff Harold Farner, who served from 1966 to 1970.