Welcome Wall
The "Welcome Wall" represents, pictorially and historical, cities, towns, and villages throughout Madison County. On display are important buildings during the early 19th century.
Mrs. Eva Adams and her students at Center School at 500N and 200E in Richland Township, Madison County. Mrs. Adams taught first through eight grades. (About 1948)
Roger Hensley Writes RR Book
Roger Hensley has published a limited edition 192 page Railroad book. It's an edition with many in-color photos. In fact most of the information is in the form of photos with describing text and a substantial amount of text by Maurice Lewman.
The photos of the general Big Four and numerous sections of specific detailed areas are of particular interest.
The book is available at the Madison County Historical Society in Anderson, Indiana, so give us a call at 765-683-0052 or stop by and get your copy now! The fee is $99.00-book; $6.93-tax; and $10 shipping.
MADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETING
PUBLIC WELCOME TO ATTEND
Madison County Historical Society Monthly Meetings
The Madison County Historical Society will hold monthly meetings on the fourth Monday of each month throughout the year with the exception of December. The meetings will be held at 7 p.m. in the Bowman Room at the Madison County History Center, 11 West 11th Street, Anderson, Indiana.
Other meetings are also listed: First Sundays and Civil War Roundtable
Society Meeting Procedure: Welcome by the president, Melody Hull
Announcements and Reminders
Introduction of department heads
Speaker
A speaker for the evening will be introduced and his or her speech will follow. The speakers are guests of the Society, our own County Historian, elected official, and/or someone in the community.
Everyone is invited to come to our meetings. These meetings are educational and include informational topics that we make available to our members and to the community.
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MEETINGS for 2022:
Everyone is invited to attend these FREE meetings. Parking is along 11th Street and across the street in the parking lot. Bring friends and family -- a full carload!! You will enjoy it!!!
NOTICE
The History Museum will be CLOSED during all national and state holidays. Please use the calendar for information about meetings at the Museum. We are OPEN on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For your convenience and more information, please call our office at 765-683-0052.
Genealogy Connections
Resources for your education:
Your Genealogy Roots
Next time you are feeling rather unimportant, try a little math based on the un-debatable fact that it took two people, your parents, to get you here. Each of your parents has two parents, so in the generation just prior to that of your mother and father, there were four people whose pairing off and sharing love contributed to your existence.
You are the product of eight great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, 32 great-great-great-grandparents, etc. Keep on multiplying the number by two. If you figure an average of about 25 years between each generation, you'll discover that a scant 500 years ago, there were 1,048,576 people on this planet beginning the production of YOU! So celebrate your background.
Ancestors
All standing in a row,
Would you be proud of them
Or don't you really know.
Some strange discoveries are made
In climbing family trees;
And some of these, I am afraid
Do not particularly please
If you could see your ancestors
All standing in a row,
There might be some of them
Perhaps
You would not care to know.
But there's another question
Which
Requires a different view;
If you should meet your ancestors,
Would they be proud of you?
The Madison County Civil War RoundTable meets throughout the year. The meetings take place on the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Bowman Room at the Museum of Madison County History, 11 West 11th Street, Anderson, Indiana.
The meeting is free and open to the public. Parking is along 11th and Meridian Streets and across the street in the parking lot.
For more information, please call 765-683-0052.
A TRULY FINE GIFT
The Madison County Historical Society has received a "truly fine gift" this year. The gift is a large 
collection of very nice Aladdin mantle and electric lamps. The gift is from Bob Daniels, The Mantle Lamp Company, and The National Association of Aladdin Lamp Collectors.
The collection is made up of over 70 choice examples of both electric and mantle lamps. This will double the size of our collection.
For more information, please call 765-683-0052.
Elwood H. Phillips Memorial Award
The Madison County Historical Society annually honors a person or organization who is deemed by the Board of Trustees to have made noteworthy contributions to the cause of preserving the heritage of Madison County, Indiana
PAST RECIPIENTS
1986 Eugene R. Bock*
1987 Raymond M. Davis*
1988 Ruth Dane*
1989 Howard Eldon*
1990 Haroldyne Zook*
1991 Esther Dittlinger*
1992 Helen Harvey Baumer*
1993 David Bucove*
1994 Maude Ward*
1995 Georgia Lyons*
1996 Phyllis Leedom*
1997 Lillie Givens Manuel*
1998 Dr. Jack Nicholson*
1999 Stephen Jackson
2000 Ray Wood*
2001 Gloria Lamper*
2002 Linda Hummel Shelton
2003 Gerald Jones
2004 Richard Bowman*
Marilyn Moneyhun*
Dr. James Moneyhun*
2005 Max Howard
2006 Robert B. Quinn*
2007 Milton C. Otto
2008 Donald Hunt
2009 Suzetta Chambers
2010 Nancy Draper
2011 Roger Hensley
2012 Carolyn DeLawter Shettle
2013 William Upperman*
2014 Theodore Vinson*
G. Eugene Yates*
2015 William Knepp
2016 Terry King
Jim Jackson*
2017 Pendleton Historical Museum
2018 Lucretia S. Lawler*
2019 Bob Post
2020 Award Postponed
2021 Jay Brown
(*deceased)
Madison County Historical Society 2021 Officers and Board of Trustees
President -- Melody Hull
Vice Pres. -- Deb Weston
Secretary -- Emilie Isenhour
Treasurer -- Gerald Jones
Co. Historian -- Stephen T. Jackson
Board Members -- Diane Barts
John Dick, Jr.
Roger Hensley
Sherri Ballinger
Wilma Carey
Bradford Douglas
Karen Napier
Madison County Historical Society|15 West 11th Street, P. O. Box 696, Anderson, Indiana 46015-0696|madisonchs10@gmail.com|andersonmchs.com|765-683-0052
ON THE ROAD WITH STEVE JACKSON
For those of you who wish to follow Steve on his many speaking engagements, the dates, locations, group, topics, and times are listed on the CALENDAR PAGE. From now on, please use the calendar for a listing of all speaking engagements. Steve is a very busy man and if you would like to put that "zing" back into your organization's meetings, call 765-683-0052 and we'll hook you up! Thank you.
DELCO-REMY BOOK
You may pick up a copy any time on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
You can have your copy of The Delco book for a donation of $75 with tax of $5.46. For mail order, please add $10.00 for shipping. Total donation of $90.46.
The Delco-Remy book is available at our office at 15 West 11th Street, Anderson, Indiana.
The Guide book is available at the Madison County Historical Society office. OR, if you wish, we can mail the book.
The book is a $35 donation plus tax at $2.45. For mail order, please add $10 for shipping. Total donation of $47.45.
GUIDE LAMP BOOK
For more information on the Delco-Remy and Guide books, please call (765)683-0052.
A Taste of Tradition cookbook can be yours for a donation of $10.00 plus a $0.70 tax. For mail order, please add $2.00 for shipping.
Brand new and available now is Remembering Edgewood written by Ted Vinson. The book covers the years 1926 to 2013. Buy it now for a donation of $45.00 with a tax of $3.15. For mail orders, please add $10.00 shipping.
A new book from Ted Vinson about growing up in North Anderson. Buy the book now for a donation of $35.00 plus tax at $2.45. For mail order, please add $10.00 for shipping.
FOR MAP LOVERS--We now have available the 1901 Madison County Land Owners Map. Own this wonderful map for a donation of $25 and tax at $1.75. For mail order, please add $10 shipping.
This map is a big one at 32 inches wide and 65 inches long....so find a "big" place of it!!!
Please note that when you order 2 or 3 of our books, shipping will be greatly decreased. For example; 1 cookbook, 1 Delco book, 1 Remembering Edgewood, and 1 Remy book will cost $12.95 shipping. So...please consider purchasing several of our books for your collection. Thank you for your donation.