Hello Everyone! Hope your enjoying the beautiful sunshine and warmer weather this week!

The archives had a great week last week. Another manuscript collection was completed and on the shelf. It is the Alex Daugherty Collection which was part of the larger Houston County Historical Society Collection that was donated to the archives. This collection contains correspondence between Alex Daugherty and various Washington D.C. Senators and Congressman trying to get his son into the Naval Academy....
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We have completed 2 additional manuscript collections. They are:

 The Marie Stockard Estate Collection

This collection contains many old letters, old greeting cards and home demonstration programs just to name a few things. The date range for this collection is from about 1898-1970

 The Hill Orchard Cemetery Association, Inc. Collection

This collection was donated by the association itself to the archives. This collection contains headstone transcriptions, association meeting minutes an...

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The work at the Houston County Archives continues on a weekly basis.  We are just now starting to unearth some interesting and historical documents about Houston County and it's people.  One of the wonderful finds we have found is a rare hand bill that would have been posted around Houston County to announce tax collections by the Trustee.  This is a rare document because when the event was concluded this hand bill would have been taken down and thrown away.  We found this document tucked in ...
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Since this is the first blog post about the Houston County Archives, I thought I would relate how we got started. One of our Houston County residence was doing research on her ancestor at the Houston County Library. She found a record on microfilm that she wanted to see the original record in the original book.  She was directed by our County Librarian to go to the courthouse where the records vault was located and she could find the record there.  When she got to the vault and opened the doo...
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