The Perry County Archive currently contains 30 different titles and over 100,000 different images, The Archive also has 6,500-7,000 searches each month! Nestled in the heart of southern Indiana, Perry County is a community rich in history and heritage. Established in 1814, Perry County is named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the […]
Guest Blog Series: Discovering Family Relationships Through Newspapers
It is my opinion that of all the resources and records available to research – newspaper articles are most critical, because of the richness and variety of their content. For example, I had found my great great grandfather Louis Marks early on but knew nothing of his siblings or parents. Louis was the first who […]
The Community History Archives: This Week In History August 12th – August 18th
On August 14th, 2003, an alarm system glitch led to a region-wide blackout. Stretching from Canada to the northeast US, millions of people were left without power. In some places, it only took 2 hours to get power back, but in others, it took 2 days. Almost 100 deaths were caused by the indirect effects […]
The Community History Archives: This Week In History August 5th – August 11th
The Curiosity Rover was a part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. It landed on Mars on August 6th, 2012, and began its journey around the red planet. The rover was car-sized, bigger than many of us imagined it to be. The job of curiosity was to survey the climate, surface, and geology of Mars. […]
