Mill Creek Community Historical Society
A virtual society that is helping to capture the history of the Mill Creek Community using 21st century technologies.
Google Earth Image of Clayton, Indiana
How
well do you know the history of the Mill Creek Community? -
- Can you name the famous person who was born and raised in Pecksburg?
- Have you ever driven through Georgetown, a town that was platted, with 80 lots and a town square in 1837?
- Where was a jail once located in Coatesville?
- Have you seen an aerial view of the path of the 1948 tornado?
- What was the name of a once famous resort in this area?
- Where did the U.S. Army have a mule farm during the Civil War?
- Who was the first postmaster of Jacktown?
- Who built and owned Clayton Mills?
- What caused the citizen of Amo to evacuate the town?
- What is the name of the famous doctor who moved to Clayton in 1901?
- What is the surname of the family that owned one of the largest carriage shops in Hendricks County?
These and
many other persons, sites and events are what make up the history of
the Mill
Creek Community.
And those are the types of things this society needs your help
in documenting for future generations.
First
and foremost, this is not a commercial undertaking. Every participant
is volunteering their time and talent. We are not
selling anything.
What we are
doing is soliciting the current and past residents of Mill
Creek
Community to dig into their memories, closets, basements, and attics to
find and share stories, photos, and artifacts that helps us
all
gain a richer appreciation of our heritage and how that
heritage
helped form the Mill Creek Community.
We
are well aware that many family historians, children,
grand-children, and great grand-children are reluctant to part with or
even loan family mementos and heirlooms. We also know that
family
stories often aren't documented, thus they are lost to future
generations. That is why we are not asking you to donate or even
loan items. Rather we want you to take the initative
to
collect and share those valuable historical photos and stories via the
Internet. That is why we say that the Mill Creek Community Historical
Society is a virtual society.
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