Westfield Washington Historical Society Museum

Promoting the History of Westfield and Washington Twshp in Hamilton Co Indiana

Promoting local and regional history about 1834 Westfield and Underground Railroad, Quakers, Orphan Train, Businesses, etc.

Our Museum is open for you!


Museum opening hours
Every Saturday 11 am - 3 pm.

Call or email us for appointments!

president@wwhs.us
(317) 804 5365

We need your help!!!

We need volunteers.

Programs, Museum open hours, Collection Management, Exhibit creation, scanning of old pictures, transcribing old document, etc - you name it, we need you.

1 hour a month, 4 hours a month, every other month....whatever you got, we can use it!

Send an email to any officer and let us know what you would like to do to help out, or ask us at any of our program meetings or at the museum.

Members

  • Michael Kobrowski
  • Rachel merrill
  • Westfield Washington HistSoc
  • Paula A. Monroe
  • Linda L. Osborne
  • Tom Huckstep
  • Karen Newnam Wood
  • Jane Callahan
  • Bruce S. Hansen
  • Joe Wheeler
  • Joe Sanders
  • John D. Peine
  • Betsy Jones
  • Andy Cook
  • Michael E Bailey
  • Christine Dedon
 

Latest Activity

One of our ongoing preservation efforts focus on restoring broken and dirty gravemarkers in the Anti-Slavery Friends Cemetery in the center of Westfield. Here a list of burials and the date of the stone cleaning and pictures of some of the stones....
on Friday
Michael Kobrowski added a group
Discussion and information about Cemetery Restoration
on Friday
Michael Kobrowski added 2 blog posts
on Friday
Michael Kobrowski added an event
December 8, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
Join us for our 2009 edition of the Holiday Show & Tell program. Bring historic items, books, papers, stories or pictures etc that you want to share with the Historical Society and community. We will also vote on officers for 2010, so please com...
on Thursday
Westfield Washington Historical Society Museum now has events
on Thursday
A blog post by Michael Kobrowski was featured
We started our process yesterday to move fully to this website hosted at ning.com to replace our old existing website that was hosted at rootsweb.com. If you aren't familiar with web stuff - you don't care about those internals anyway, but it wil...
on Thursday
Tom Huckstep updated their profile
on Wednesday
Jane Callahan, Tom Huckstep, Bruce S. Hansen and 1 more were featured
on Wednesday

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Blog Posts

Michael Kobrowski

Our deepest condolences - Rev. Jon Daubenspeck Saturday, November 14, 2009

Daubenspeck, Rev. Jon
November 16, 2009
Rev. Jon Bruce Daubenspeck 66, Westfield, passed away Saturday, November 14, 2009 at Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis. He was born May 4, 1943 in Noblesville, Indiana to Herbert Mace and Deloris May (Unger) Daubenspeck. Rev. Daubenspeck had proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy. Rev. Daubenspeck was serving as Associate Pastor of White Chapel Church in Carmel. He owned and operated Dauby's Domain, Inc., where he was master machi… Continue

Posted by Michael Kobrowski on November 19, 2009 at 7:25pm

Michael Kobrowski

Transition of wwhs.us

We started our process yesterday to move fully to this website hosted at ning.com to replace our old existing website that was hosted at rootsweb.com.

If you aren't familiar with web stuff - you don't care about those internals anyway, but it will enable us to be more interactive with you - the community. More officers and volunteers can post events and text online without one person having to do web development for it.

Our program officer can post events themselves and everything should be mo… Continue

Posted by Michael Kobrowski on November 18, 2009 at 11:20pm

Michael Kobrowski

From Indiana Department of Natural Resources DNR/National UGRR: Conferences up for late October at Colgate and Yale

This is from an email we received from the Indiana DNR:


Friends:

Posted below are two announcements for upcoming conferences on the
abolition movement and the commemoration of the Harper's Ferry Raid of
1859. Additional information regarding these conferences are posted
below.
Feel free to share this announcement with others who m… Continue

Posted by Michael Kobrowski on September 27, 2009 at 8:30am

Michael Kobrowski

2009 Underground Railroad conference in Indianapolis

I am fortunate to be able to attend my 2nd UGRR conference. Last year in Philadelphia was great, but its nice to have it here in Indy!

Here a link to the site.

Karen Wood, our former intern, is here as well and we will both write more about this here and/or for the next newsletter.

We'll keep you posted!

Michael

Posted by Michael Kobrowski on September 17, 2009 at 2:26pm

John D. Peine

Check out artist display

In today's Star September 4, 2009, there is an article about an art gallery in Broad Ripple that is displaying a leading local artist that specializes in nostalgic images in Hamilton County. Maybe he/she has painted subjects in the Westfield area. Someone should check this out.

An award-winning Arcadia artist known for painting nostalgic places in Hamilton County will have his work on display at the Hoosier Salon's Broad Ripple Gallery, beginning Friday.
Rodney Reveal, a 1968 Noblesville High S… Continue

Posted by John D. Peine on September 4, 2009 at 7:47am — 1 Comment

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Michael Kobrowski

Program suggestions and requests

Started by Michael Kobrowski Sep 2.

Westfield Washington HistSoc

Exhibit suggestions

Started by Westfield Washington HistSoc Jan 18.

 
 

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