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Phone: 260-726-7168
Fax: 260-726-7178
Email: research@jaycountyhistory.org

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Heritage Festival

The Portland Foundation recently awarded a $5,000 grant to the Jay County Historical Society to help support this year’s Heritage Festival. The grant will be paid from unrestricted funds held by The Portland Foundation. 

The Jay County Historical Society Board of Directors is truly grateful for this grant, along with all the other support we have ...

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March Monthly Meeting

Because of COVID-19, there will not be a Monthly Program Meeting in March. We are hoping to resume having meetings in the not too distant future. The new large screen tv and sound system which were purchased through a Heritage Support Grant last year are set up and waiting for
meetings to be held.

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Facebook Changes

Due to an unexplained glitch in the museum’s Facebook page, we have set up a new account. It may be accessed the same as the original account at “Jay County Historical Society.”

Please be sure that you are accessing the updated page and that you “like” our new page so that posts will appear on your timeline. We will try to keep it ...

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JCHS Board Elects officers

At the December meeting of the Board of Directors, officers for 2021 were elected and a tentative calendar for the year was approved. Elected to serve for another year were Co-presidents Rob Weaver and Phil Rager, Co-vice Presidents Claudia Jones and Kay Locker, and Secretary Jane Spencer. Bob Vance was elected as treasurer to replace Judy Zearbaugh who had served ...

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Volunteers Needed

Do you need something to occupy your time on cold, winter days? We are still in need of volunteers to help with sorting and indexing materials at the museum.

We have many scrapbooks and books of clippings, such as obituaries and births, which need to be indexed so that information can be found easily.

If you can do basic typing on a computer, we would ...

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Look What's on Display!

Many items are a small part of the display in the Domestic Arts Room at the museum. Most of the museum’s cast iron cookware, came from the estate of the late O.H. “Doc” Schwanamederman along with many other items in this room. 

A stove donated by Robert G. Holley of Muncie, Indiana. It was used by his parents, Orville and Lelia Holley to provide ...

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"Only Jay" Shirts Available

Show your pride for Jay County throughout the summer and at our Heritage Festival in September.  Get your "Only Jay in the USA" shirt now!

Jay County was named after John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  To publicize that we are the only Jay County in the USA, the JCHS is selling t-shirts.  The shirts are ...

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Events

May
25
  • Monthly Program Meeting
Jun
19
  • Open House
Jun
22
  • Monthly Program Meeting



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Portland, Indiana 47371
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  • Membership
  • Geneaology
    • Jay County Genealogy
    • Indiana Genealogical Society
    • Rootsweb For Jay County
  • Our Displays
  • Merchandise
  • About
    • Our History
    • Jay County History
  • Calendar
  • Contact Us