Features and Special Collections: * Civil War and Military History - A collection of Civil War history and of the nation's other military history, containing 183 volumes, is available for in-house use. The gift of Jack K. Overmyer, first FCHS president and a published Civil War author, the collection is arranged in 21 categories that include Abraham Lincoln, war histories, biographies, battle, Indiana in the war and videos. * Ogle/Ogles Family Association library, such as The Ogle Genealogist and many books from Alice Ogle estate - she had a large collection of genealogy indexes and histories from Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and other states where many Ogles settled. Wayne Ogle, James Donalson, Shirley Ogle Willard and other O/OFA members have donated books, pamphlets, histories, etc. * Indian Awareness Center/ Potawatomi Trail of Death Association collection of tribal newspapers and newsletters from related groups, plus much genealogical material, including family histories compiled by Potawatomi who had ancestors on the 1838 Trail of Death from Indiana to Kansas. This is the official repository for the Trail of Death Regional Historic Trail - pictures of each historical marker, news clippings, diary, microfilm print-outs, etc. * Collection of news clippings on history of Fulton County, including people, buildings, clubs past and present that volunteers have been clipping from newspapers for over 20 years. The Rochester Sentinel gives Shirley Willard copies each week to clip for local history. South Bend Tribunes were brought from the Rochester library. Other members bring in articles from Logansport Pharos Tribune. Many people mail and bring in articles they think should be kept. You are invited to send in articles too. This collection is in 16 file cabinets. Schools - past and present, yearbooks: nearly complete set of Rochester High School, various years of Columbia Elementary, Riddle Elementary, Kewanna, Leiters Ford, Akron, Tippecanoe Valley, Caston, Fulton, Grass Creek, Richland Center, Tiosa. College catalogs, yearbooks, and alumni records from Rochester College 1895-1912 are kept here. Many old school textbooks are from one- room schools. Some township trustee school records from Richland and Union townships are located here. * Genealogy societies newsletters from many Indiana counties, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and some from California, Oregon, Missouri, etc. Surname file and family histories of many local families. The surname file has names and addresses of people who are researching various families. You might find someone researching the same surname that you are researching and contact that person and exchange information. More Features and Special Collections Back to museum info |
Fulton County Historical Society Museums
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Located in North Central Indiana
| Files of obituaries from Rochester newspapers 1944-85 and in books up to the present - these were donated by Judge Wendell Tombaugh, plus copies of the many books he wrote and published and bound himself. These books include indexes of Rochester newspapers, Fulton County cemetery inscriptions, marriage and birth records, censuses, obituaries, Rochester School Enumerations 1896-1925, Handbook of 23 volumes, family histories, etc. Also cemetery inscriptions from parts of Miami and Marshall counties. Tombaugh's obituaries are on the Fulton County Library's web page but are divided into years so you have to know which year a person died and wait about five minutes for that volume to come up. Judge Tombaugh gave FCHS permission to print out each year's obituaries and put them in ring-binder notebooks. See for all Tombaugh books. www.fulco.lib.in.us/ Under local genealogy. |
| Fulton County newspapers 1858-present, includes 190 volumes of Rochester newspapers donated from the Fulton County Court House. Unbound volumes include Rochester, Kewanna and Fulton newspapers that were microfilmed in 1979. National Round Barn Center of Information with pictures and stories about round and many-sided barns from all over the U.S., Canada and England. Fulton County authors - books, magazine and newspaper articles written by residents of Fulton County, Indiana. |
