The Scott County Historical Society gathers and preserves all manner of items and materials from around the county. Among them are archival materials, letter, business records, cards, brochures, etc. As a new year approaches this seems like a good time to promote our wonderful archive. While currently many of these items are not up online to be searched, we will be starting to add them to our online database on our website soon.
Our archive is ever growing and full of wonderful materials. If you are interested in genealogy, maybe see if we have photographs, old deeds, we might have a diploma from a great grandparent, or a letter they wrote to family overseas. While we work to make our archive more accessible to the public, know that it is a resource available to you. If you are curious what we have, or if you are looking for something particular, contact us and we can do some quick searches.
Archives are instrumental in research and preservation. Documents, photographs, even oral histories are all stored in our archive to be used as tool in their searches through history. On that point, we would also like to encourage you think twice before deleting old emails, or tossing out letter or pamphlets you get. While those items might not have a use to you anymore, we might be able to use them as a snapshot of life and times today. It is important that we remember that we are living history right this moment, and we must share, collect, and preserve today as much as do yesterday.
