Blog | 2023 Hamilton County Bicentennial

The Hamilton County Bicentennial Year Comes to a Close

By Jessica Layman, Bicentennial Coordinator, and Genealogy and Local History Librarian, Hamilton East Public Library When I began working...

Connect to Your Place in the World Through Historical Societies

Places are kind of like people. They can be related to one another — sharing a border on a map — but no one place is truly like another...

Transforming Thanksgiving Conversations

Based on a letter written by English colonist Edward Winslow, what we have come to call the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621 in what...

1880 Carmel Map Looks a Lot Like Home

When the Carmel Clay Historical Society began developing its Bicentennial project, the team, which included Historian Andrew Wright, knew...

PREVIEW OF NOVEMBER HAMILTON COUNTY BICENTENNIAL EVENTS

CLAY TOWNSHIP, IN. —The Hamilton County Bicentennial Commission would like to announce its lineup of grant-funded and community events...

The Role of Local Newspapers — Then and Now

Hamilton County is lucky to have several local sources for news in spite of newspapers’ demise nationwide. Between 2004 and 2015, the...

Three Cemetery Stories for Spooky Season

Hamilton County Historian David Heighway has written so much about our community’s spookier side. And what better setting than a local...

PREVIEW OF OCTOBER HAMILTON COUNTY BICENTENNIAL EVENTS

DELAWARE TOWNSHIP, IN. —The Hamilton County Bicentennial Commission would like to announce its lineup of grant-funded and community...

HamCo History Pop Quiz — Play to Win!

History class is now in session! Take the HamCo History Pop Quiz and get entered to win a $30 digital gift card to the Bicentennial...

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