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HISTORICAL NEWS

HISTORICAL NEWS

Historical Organizations

ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Lima

James A. MacDonell, President

A Shay engine built by the Lima Locomotive works in 1925 and used at

the National Lime and Stone Company quarry until 1947, has been renovated

by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation. It is to be placed on a concrete

foundation on the society's property as a permanent exhibit.

Contracts have been awarded for construction of the Allen County Museum

building to be located at 620 West Market Street. The total cost of the

building will be $170,129.89, of which the society now has available $145,-

000. A campaign to collect the additional amount will be undertaken within

the next few months. Construction started the latter part of November.

 

AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, Cincinnati

Jacob R. Marcus, Director

The archives has recently acquired microfilm copy of the Henry Joseph

Collection of Gratz Papers. As far as is known, this is the largest Jewish

manuscript collection in North America. It includes about 2,000 pages deal-

ing with Barnard and Michael Gratz, Philadelphia merchants from 1754 to

about 1800, and 4,000 pages of letters to Rebecca Gratz, a well-known

Philadelphia Jewess. The use of the private correspondence has been re-

stricted by the family, but that of the business papers is unrestricted.

Two publications have been issued recently by the archives, Loan Exhibits

of American Judaica, and How to Write the History of an American Jewish

Community.

 

ANTHONY WAYNE PARKWAY BOARD, Columbus

J. R. Lawwill, Director

The Indiana Historical Society and the Society of Indiana Pioneers made

their annual pilgrimage last fall on October 24 and 25, touring the Anthony

Wayne Parkway from Fort St. Clair to the site of the Battle of Fallen

Timbers. The touring party was accompanied by J. Richard Lawwill, director

of the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board, and Richard C. Knopf, historian

of the board, who interpreted the historic sites along the way.

The board is coordinating the plans of several state departments and the

Napoleon City Park Department for the development of Ritter Park, a three-

mile area along the Maumee River west of Napoleon.

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