Our meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month, as needed, at the Rockport Library.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at 6:30 PM in the Genealogy Room at the Rockport Library.

Historian of the Year Banquet - April 17, 2010

The Spencer County Historical Society's annual Historian of the Year Banquet will be held Saturday, April 17, 2010, at 6:00 PM at the Chrisney, Indiana Youth and Community Center. Steve Sisley of Chrisney will be honored as the 2010 Historian of the Year. Evelyn Swallow, a retired schoolteacher, will be remembered as the Commemorative Historian of the Year.

Guest speaker this year will be Jane Ellen Boultinghouse who will speak about the Gentry family in Spencer County

The meal will be catered by The Rockport Inn of Rockport, Indiana.

Tickets are $15.00 and may be obtained by contacting Patricia Dawson at 812-649-2939.

Membership is open to all and dues are $10.00 per year from August 1 to July 31. Membership may be taken out at any time. Mail your name, address, e-mail (not required) and research interest (if any) to:

Membership Form in PDF format.

Publications for Sale:

Audio Tour of Historic Rockport                     Picture of CD Cover
A CD driving tour, with map, of historical sites in Rockport. It is 3 miles in length and will take 50 to 60 minutes depending upon how long you stay at the different stops. Updated December, 2003.

History of Warrick, Spencer and Perry Counties, Indiana
1885 reprint, 837 pages plus index.

1879 Illustrated Atlas of Spencer County, Indiana

1968 Rockport-Spencer County Sesquicentennial

The Missing Chapter in the Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Bess Ehrmann, 1938. Reprinted 1990.

Lincoln and His Neighbors
by Bess Ehrmann, 1943. Reprinted 1994.

Minute Book of the Old Little Pigeon Creek Baptist Church
1816 - 1840

Hoosier Ancestor Scrapbook
Volume I and II 1936-1991, 310 pages plus index

Spencer County Interim Report (Structures in Spencer County)

When Lincoln Went Flatboating from Rockport
by Bess Ehrmann. Reprinted 2008.

Sandy Creek Landing Greets the Lincolns
by C. T. Baker, 1931. Reprinted 2008