HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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