The Pencil Sharpener Museum!
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canyonwalkerOhio Waterfalls Travelog #15
Logan, OH · Sat, 18 Apr 2026. 4pm
Did you know there's a pencil sharpener museum? There is, and it's in West Logan, Ohio. Did you know there's a West Logan, Ohio? There is, and it's right next to the Logan, Ohio. Did you know there's a Loga— nevermind, this is getting silly. I didn't know any of this existed until a few weeks ago, when I started looking at where to stay during a visit to Hocking Hills State Park. It popped up on a map when I was looking at hotels and restaurants. Ultimately we chose to stay in Circleville instead but I figured we might visit Logan/West Logan for lunch— which we did just an hour ago— and could visit the pencil sharpener museum on a day when it's too rainy to want to go hiking in the park. Which, this afternoon, it is.
The pencil sharpener museum is both more and less than I expected. More, because it's real and not just some tourist-trap thing that locals shilled Google Maps into featuring prominently. But also less because it's in a shed barely the size of a one-car garage, outside a regional visitors center. And while I thought it might be a historical exhibit about the history of pencil sharpeners and their manufacture, it's 98% just a collection of hundreds, possibly thousands, of mostly cheap-shit pencil sharpeners; mostly cheap, plastic junk from the 1980s that people shoved pencil sharpeners in as gimmicks.
At least it was free.
Logan, OH · Sat, 18 Apr 2026. 4pm
Did you know there's a pencil sharpener museum? There is, and it's in West Logan, Ohio. Did you know there's a West Logan, Ohio? There is, and it's right next to the Logan, Ohio. Did you know there's a Loga— nevermind, this is getting silly. I didn't know any of this existed until a few weeks ago, when I started looking at where to stay during a visit to Hocking Hills State Park. It popped up on a map when I was looking at hotels and restaurants. Ultimately we chose to stay in Circleville instead but I figured we might visit Logan/West Logan for lunch— which we did just an hour ago— and could visit the pencil sharpener museum on a day when it's too rainy to want to go hiking in the park. Which, this afternoon, it is.
The pencil sharpener museum is both more and less than I expected. More, because it's real and not just some tourist-trap thing that locals shilled Google Maps into featuring prominently. But also less because it's in a shed barely the size of a one-car garage, outside a regional visitors center. And while I thought it might be a historical exhibit about the history of pencil sharpeners and their manufacture, it's 98% just a collection of hundreds, possibly thousands, of mostly cheap-shit pencil sharpeners; mostly cheap, plastic junk from the 1980s that people shoved pencil sharpeners in as gimmicks.
At least it was free.
