White County Indiana Historical SocietyPlease update to our new webpage & our email too.http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inwchs/ new email; wcmuseum@centurylink.net |
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April 14, 2013 WCHS
ANNUAL DINNER
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The Present
Mission Statement:
To appreciate and encourage the connection of the past to the future
by collecting and preserving
White County Historical Society is a not-for-profit Society established to bring together those who share a common interest in White County Indiana's history. The Society has a Museum that has many displays recently reworked for public viewing and a variety of programs for our community. Our new remodel building interior provides the public an opportunity to research and to share their research with others. The current WC Genealogy Society is housed on the main floor. Between the two societies there are many historical files available for your research needs. We also have research services available. See the list of family books for local research we have collected. New research room. |
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Pictured: Isaac White display case in museum. |
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The Future The WCHS does more than house it's
history. Our members participate in current projects and
related issues. Several events and programs are held annually to benefit
our members and help raise funds and awareness. |
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Pictured: Indexing
Obituary project
White County Townships Coming soon. Schools of White County
Click for area MAP
Profile
of County Census
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White County Indiana was named for Isaac White
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White County Indiana was formed in 1834 and is named for Colonel Isaac White, one of 13 United States Counties named in honor of fallen heroes at the historic Battle of Tippecanoe. Isaac White was born around 1776 in Prince William County, Virginia to a family of refined English origin, shortly after the Revolutionary War began. When he was 23 years old, Isaac and his brother, Thomas, left home, unhappy with their mother's second marriage. They traveled to Vincennes where Isaac met and married Sallie Leech, daughter of Judge George Leech. Their union produced three children, George Washington Leech White, Harriet Grandson White and Juliet Greenville White. He was an American frontiersman who was in charge of the salt works in Equality, Illinois. Isaac White was also a Colonel in the Illinois Militia. He was a close friend to Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory, and to Joseph Hamilton Daviess, a U.S. District Attorney for Kentucky. Like Daviess, White answered Governor William Harrison's call for volunteers in 1811 to march on Tecumseh's village at Prophetstown. Governor Harrison declined the offer of Illinois troops. Colonel White therefore enlisted as a private in the Indiana dragoons, which had been placed under the command of Joseph Daviess for Indiana service. At Fort Vincennes the two exchanged swords. Both White and Daviess were killed on Nov. 7, 1811 and buried in a common grave at the Battle of Tippecanoe, just a few miles south of what is now the city of Monticello. White's name is the last inscribed on the tablet honoring that war's dead. A rare historical attraction in White County is the Anson Wolcott House, located on U.S. 24 about 20 miles west of Monticello in downtown Wolcott. Wolcott House is one of two homes in the county listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Historic Marker |
Read a longer biography of Isaac White Isaac White display case.
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101 South Bluff Street Monticello, Indiana, 47960
574-583-3998This museum is located in the old Monticello Carnegie Library
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