Spencer County Historical Society
Spencer County Public Library
210 Walnut Street
Rockport, IN 47635-1398
Phone: 812-649-4866
Can you name these sites?Spencer County, Indiana

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Our meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 PM at the Rockport Library.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, September 2, 2008 in the Genealogy Room at the Rockport Library.


Membership dues for the 2008-2009 year are now payable.

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:

Spencer County Historical Society
Spencer County Public Library
210 Walnut Street
Rockport, IN 47635-1398
Phone: 812-649-4866

Membership Form in PDF format.


Bylaws in PDF format.


Take our History Quiz.


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.

$10.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling


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

$60.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling


1879 Illustrated Atlas of Spencer County, Indiana

$25.00 plus $6.00 shipping and handling


1968 Rockport-Spencer County Sesquicentennial

$10.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling


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

$20.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling


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

$5.00 plus $2.00 shipping and handling


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

$10.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling


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

$22.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling
Volume III 1992-1995, 210 pages plus index
$18.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling


Spencer County Interim Report (Structures in Spencer County)

$10.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling


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

$10.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling