The Jackson Heritage Association will sponsor an Antique Appraisal Day Saturday. The appraisal day will run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Jackson High School cafeteria.
The public may bring antique items such as jewelry, art, glassware, clocks, quilts and furniture to be appraised for a $5 per item fee by area appraisers. This form of appraisal has recently become very popular with the Antiques Roadshow, broadcast on public television each week.
All proceeds will got to maintain the Oliver House, located at 224 E. Adams. The Oliver House is a pre-Civil War brick Federal style home which has been restored and furnished by he Jackson Heritage Association to represent the late Victorian era when the family of State Senator Robert Burett Oliver and Marie Watkins Oliver lived there.
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