Jun 27, 2016 | Highlights in History
History of Hamilton East Public Library: A Township Library By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Continuing the discussion of the history of the Noblesville library from The Founding to Dr. Haymond W. Clark., I thought I might look at a document that is still...
Jun 20, 2016 | Highlights in History
Noblesville and Hollywood: Otis F. Bart By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian About a year ago, I mentioned in passing that a local man, Otis F. Bart, had known the famous silent movie cowboy star, Tom Mix. I’m returning to that to look at exactly where and...
Jun 13, 2016 | Highlights in History
Baseball in Noblesville and Hamilton County: 1890-1910 By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Following up on the two previous baseball posts – Baseball in Noblesville and Hamilton County: 1868-1880 and Baseball in Noblesville and Hamilton County: The...
Jun 6, 2016 | Highlights in History
Sarah (Sallie) Kilgore By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian These days, there are great research resources popping up online all the time. The Hamilton East Public Library has access to two online newspaper databases which can be useful and a lot of fun to...
May 30, 2016 | Highlights in History
The Hamilton County Monument By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian For Memorial Day, I thought I would look at the largest memorial in town – the Civil War monument in Crownland Cemetery, which will be 150 years old in 2018. It’s the reason Monument Street has...
May 24, 2016 | Highlights in History
Preston Tucker By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian I thought I would do one more auto-related post before the Indy 500 and look at some of the quirky relationships that Noblesville has to automobile history. One of these relationships was with Preston...
