Digitized Publications

Publications

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Boone: Your County Magzine

County Histories

County Records

Directories

LHS: The Pennant

Newspapers

Veterans Records

Boone:  Your County Magazine

Boone:  Your County Magazine was a local interest periodical dedicated to Boone County, Indiana, published (for the most part monthly) from November 1973-August 1986 (it was renamed Boone County Magazine in September 1983).  Its principal focus was on the genealogy and history of Boone, but it also published many items related to contemporary people and events.  A complete print collection is available in the Heritage Center.

Index (by Dixie Taylor, 2019)

Indexes (Eric Spall, 2020)

Special Bicentennial Edition 1976 (published June 1976)

County Histories

This index was published in 1938 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. Each entry contains an abbreviation for the publication referenced and a page number; the key to the abbreviations is at the front of the index. A majority of the publications indexed have been digitized and are accessible through the accompanying links (entry abbreviations are in brackets at the end of the titles).

A – C

C – E

E – H

H – L

L – N

N – S

S – V

V – Z

E

AN ADDRESS CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY [N]

Stephen Neal (1876)

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E

COMBINATION ATLAS MAP OF BOONE COUNTY [Co]

Kingman Bros.

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E

EARLY LIFE & TIMES IN BOONE COUNTY [H]

Samuel Harden (1887)

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E

HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY INDIANA VOLUME 1 [C 1]

L. M. Crist (1914)

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E

HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY INDIANA VOLUME 2 [C 2]

L. M. Crist (1914)

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E

PEOPLE’S GUIDE [P]

Cline & McHaffie (1874)

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E

PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BOONE & CLINTON COUNTIES, INDIANA [Po]

A. W. Bowen & Co. (1895)

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County Records

Entry and Issue Dockets & Fee Books:  These books provide information on various cases brought before the Boone County Circuit Court, including names of parties and attorneys, types of actions, and fees associated with each case.  The entries are arranged by cause number and serve as indexes to other order books maintained by the County Clerk’s office.  Each volume also has its own index at the front.

Directories

Businesses of Boone County, 1865

Transcribed from Map of Boone & Clinton Counties, Indiana (Philadelphia:  Cowles & Titus, 1865)

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The City of Lebanon, IN: A Directory of Its Businesses, 1887

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Prairie Farmer’s Directory of Boone County, 1920

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Lebanon High School Student Newspapers
The Pennant

1913

April

1915

January

February

April

November

1917

January

February

March

Newspapers

E

LEBANON REPORTER, 1917

Available at Hoosier State Chronicles

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Veteran Records

E

BOONE COUNTY SOLDIERS’ PENSION ROLLS, 1890 & 1894

Contains information on pensioned soldiers living in Boone County, Indiana, who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. When available, medical information and living relative are noted.  Divided into two sections, one for 1890 and one for 1894; each section is organized by township.

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