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The town of Lacona celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2006: This is the first of a series featuring towns of warren county.  If you would like your town featured, please send us information and share your knowledge.  View Article

Spring Cleaning at the Warren County Historical Museum:  It is hard to stay focused on the job of Cleaning and Organizing the Museum.  Like going through your attic we find many interesting items.  When an old flag was discovered we naturally wanted to know the history of it.  View Article
SAYING GOOD-BYE to the SPRING HILL BRIDGE :
We included this photo and the following article in our latest News Letter.  We have been corrected by local residents with long memories. View Article
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Corwin Hicks' Indian Artifacts:  We recently acquired Corwin's Indian Artifact Collection.  Lynn Lester was instrumental in helping us identify the items.  View Article
Mural in Progress:  Come check out our World Wars exhibit.  The mural is being done by Troy Bass and his daughter, Cassandra, it is a scene from WW I in France.  Bob Aubert and his brother are working on the story of our brave men and woman.  View Article
Come check out The Warren County Modular Rail Roaders Model Train exhibit:  John Averill and Jim Dustin are building a display in our museum.  View Article

Come check out This Class Photo Located in our Mt. Hope School:  One of several Class Photos located in our Mt. Hope Country School.  View Article

Cowdin: 
LaDonna Cowdin Russell scanned these photos in and sent a copy of them to The Warren County Historical Society.  We have printed some of them and included them in our Spring Hill Display for the Log Cabin Festival.  Please join us as we celebrate our heritage.  In addition to the photo's Ladonna included a PDF of a very interesting letter Harold Cowdin sent home towards the end of WWII.  I have included a link to this letter in the article.  View Article