FIRST TIME EVER FROM THE BLACKFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Part of the “The Gazette Collection” of newspapers have now been digitized and are searchable using this link https://bchs-in.historyarchives.online/home

• Daily Gazette  (1901-1903) – 1,868 Pages
• Hartford City Daily Gazette  (1903-1905) – 2,464 Pages
• Blackford County Gazette  (1901-1905) – 1,599 Pages
• The Daily Times Gazette (1905-1913) – 9,404 Pages
• Weekly Times Gazette  (1905-1913) – 3,071 Pages

The Gazette collection of newspapers were published from 1901 through 1937 and represent an irreplaceable insight into Blackford County’s past. The only known existing copies of these newspapers are giant bound volumes of the original newspaper print that were stored in the Blackford County Annex for years until they were moved to the Blackford County Historical Society.

The digitization of the newspapers above is just the first step in  a much larger project to save these bound newspapers for our community. The next step in the project is to digitize all the Gazette newspapers from 1914 through 1937 over the next several years using the services of Advantage Archives of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

If you wish to support to this project, please send your contribution marked “Newspaper Project” on a note or memo line to:

Blackford County Historical Society
P. O. Box 264
Hartford City, IN 47348

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The Blackford County Historical Society is currently soliciting the following specific donations:

Yearbooks

• 1963
• 1976
• 1980 – 1987
• 1989
• 1990 – present

We will, of course, accept all yearbook donations, but these specific years we have no backup copies on hand.