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P.O. Box 134
LaGrange, Indiana  46761
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Looking Back Through the Years In LaGrange County
"A Collection of Micro-Filmed Stories from the LaGrange Standard "

Some of these articles have been transcribed while others have been scanned to a .pdf file and you will open the link to view the article with Adobe Acrobat.  All materials are from past issues of  the LaGrange Standard, unless otherwise stated, and  have been used with the express permission of Bill Connelly, Publisher. - June 29, 2006

"From Milk to Bread"  Cub Souts of LaGrange, Dens  1 & 7
Check a condensing unit a the Gordon Baking Co. in LaGrange with Robert Huffman, assistant manger of the plant.  THe boys who toured the plant with their den leaders were Mike Burkey, Richard Tjarks, Jack Pipher, Stanley Larimer, James Hooley, Herbert Levitz, Mike Marten, David Menges, Terry Miller, Richard Wiard and James Woodworth. - Clipping in the,  "The LaGrange Standard," LaGrange, Indiana, Nov. 10, 1960

Farmer's Rescue Election - "The LaGrange Standard," May 30, 1919

History of Mongo - New Dec. 2007
Article was pasted in the Scrapbook of Homer Brown of Brushy Prairie.  Donated by Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Hayward.  Article came from a LaGrange, IN, newspaper prior to 1910.

Alfred Packer - NEW NOV. 2007

  1890 LaGrange Township Trustees

LaGrange County's Infamous Skunk Lady

Trustees of LaGrange County Indiana, 1921

 Diary of Hawpatch Pioneer, Feb. 20, 1936

Old Resident Recalls Days Of Yore Around Mud Corners

Plato Recollections By Mrs. Weir

Jack Wainwright

Palm Sunday Tornado

LaGrange County Settler Recalls Early History - John Smith of Lima, Indiana

The Scott Mill Photographs   Scott Mill Article

First Courthouse Becomes Barn by: Paul Riddick

Early Days of Scott by Paul Riddick

Hotel Mongo - by: Paul Riddick

Mongo Olde Store    Page 1    Page 2    Page 3

Brown's Drug Store To Observe Anniversary of 75 Years - By: Harry Groat
Photo #1    Photo #2

When Stroh Was Booming - Recollectins of Lloyd Bowman

Pickle Stations in LaGrange and Stroh

Wayne Fisher's book "Wolcott Mills"

The LaGrange County Library has a wonderful microfilm collection that is accessible to the public.  It is open the same hours as the library and you can view the pages for free or print them for 15 cents a page.  You will find the link to the library in our Links section.  The articles on this page were individually collected  by Raymond and Charlotte for personal interest and we wanted to share them with you.  We have typed the whole article as it was printed in order to let you have the complete story or scanned it to the best of our abilities. It is not the responsibility of the library to search for articles or make copies. Out of kindness to them, please don't make requests to do so.  If you have an interesting article and the cite source pertaining to LaGrange Co., please email it to lagrange_history@yahoo.com and we will get it posted in a timely manner.

    
 

     
 

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