MARSHALL COUNTY, Indiana
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*First created in 1835.
*County seat: Plymouth.
Located in northern Indiana.
Index for Marshall County.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Argos, Bourbon,
Bremen, Burr
Oak, Culver (Marmont), Donaldson, Eagle
Lake
City [historic], Fairmont, Harris, Hibbard,
Inwood, La
Paz, La Paz Junction, Linkville, Maxinkuckee,
Old Tip Town, Plymouth, Rutland,
Summit Chapel, Teegarden, Tippecanoe, Twin Lakes, Tyner,
and Walnut.
Select this LINK to see GENERAL Marshall
County information
and links.
Select from the TOWN list above to learn which township the
community is
located in, and view information and links specific to that area.
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Surrounding Counties:
N = St.
Joseph
County, IN
W = Starke
County, IN MARSHALL COUNTY
NE = Elkhart
County, IN
S = Fulton
County, IN E & SE = Kosciusko
County, IN
MARSHALL COUNTY, INDIANA
Established in 1835; County seat is Plymouth.
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MAPS
- 1875 Map of Marshall County, Indiana,
from Higgins Belden & Co. ( see
citation )
- U. S. Census Bureau Marshall
County
Profile.
- Interactive Present day Map
of Marshall County, Indiana.
-
Use the query form, at
USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated
places, and more. Please note that the map town listed
with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not
be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see
the location of the actual feature. This database may not be
complete, and, as with
any database, there may be errors.
NATIVE
AMERICAN: THE POTAWATOMIE PEOPLE
- The Great
Lakes
Project: The Geographic Location of Potawatomi Bands: 1795-1846, With
a consideration of the earlier habitat and migrations of the Potawatomi
and other Indian occupations on lands ceded to the United States by the
Potawatomi Indians, Written by Dr. David A Baerrels.
- History of the
Potawatomi, by Lee Sultzman, on Dick Shovel site (1998) - By
the 1760s, they
expanded into northern Indiana from the northern areas between
Milwaukee
and Detroit.
- Chief
Menominee
Memorial
- Chief
Menominee and the Treaty of Tippecanoe
- Native
Americans in Marshall County
- The
Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana
P.O. Box 41 - Peru, Indiana 46970 Phone: (765)
473-9631.
MUSEUMS
- Marshall
County Historical Society and Museum
123 N. Michigan Street - Plymouth, Indiana
46563 Phone: (574) 936-2306.
COMMERCE, TOURISM & ONLINE COMMUNITY
- Marshall County,
Indiana: Blueberry Country - Visitors Web Guide.
- Marshall County
Information Server
- Marshall
County
Community - Information Server by Ralph Booker.
- Plymouth Chamber of
Commerce
NATURE
- Potawatomi Wildlife
Park
NEWS & NEWSPAPERS
- The
Pilot
News
P.O. Box 220 - Plymouth, IN 46563 - South Bend Tribune -
neighboring
St. Joseph County
- Indiana State
Library:
- 140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN
46204-2296.
CHURCHES
- Local
Catholic Church and Family History and Genealogy for Indiana
- Catholic
Churches in Marshall County, Indiana.
- History
of the Catholic Church in Indiana.
CEMETERIES
-
Use the query form, at
USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated
places, and more. Please note that the map town listed
with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not
be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see
the location of the actual feature. This database may not be
complete, and, as with
any database, there may be errors.
SCHOOLS and EDUCATION
HISTORY
& Genealogy: Articles ONLINE
- Marshall
County History
- Plymouth Chamber of
Commerce
- A Brief
History
of Plymouth, by the Elementary classes of Menominee, Jefferson,
Washington
and Webster Elementary.
- INGenWeb for Marshall
County Genealogy, by Roberta Wunder.
- History
of Marshall County, by Daniel McDonald (1908), and Marshall
County Township Map, online by Roberta
Wunder!!!
- Early
Marshall County Divorces, 1836 - 1899
- Index
to Marshall County Naturalizations, 1854 to 1929, From:
Marshall
County Roots and Branches, Vol. 15, No. 3, July, 1994, Judy McCollough,
Editor
and Compiler.
- Marshall
County Asylum Register, 1874 - 1900, From: Marshall County
Roots
and Branches, Vol. 16, No. 1, January, 1995; Judy McCollough, editor
and
compiler.
- Index
to Deaths & Obituaries Abstracted from Marshall County Newspapers,
for which original newspapers are available at the Marshall County Historical
Society
Museum, in Plymouth, IN, by Judy McCollough.
- Fulton County Public
Library (Fulton County, IN Rochester Branch)
- The
Julia
E. Work Training School/Brightside Orphanage 1899-1937 (History
& Census), by: C. Stultz, C. G.
- Marshall
County, Indiana Federal Census Index - 1850 Census
online.
- Fulton
County
Public Library has online obituaries
some relating to Marshall County residents.
- countyhistory.com:
for Marshall
County, by Ronald Branson!
- Indiana State
Library.
140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
- Indiana State
Archives.
6440 E. 30th Street - Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone:
(317) 591-5222
- Family History Resources
- Naturalization
Databases for the Indiana counties of Blackford, Dubois, Elkhart,
Floyd, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe, Morgan,
Noble, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Randolph, Switzerland, Union, Wayne, and Whitley.
- The Doughboy Center
- presented by The Great War Society.
- World
War II
Veterans Online Information Center
ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES for Further Research
- Marshall
County Historical Society and Museum
123 N. Michigan Street - Plymouth, Indiana 46563
Phone: (574) 936-2306 E-mail: mchistory@mchistoricalsociety.org
- Culver - Union
Township Public Library
- 107 N. Main Street - Culver, IN Phone:
(574)
842-2941
- Culver Through the Years
- "presents a gallery of hundreds of rare, vintage images of the Culver
area." The Culver Public Library encourages interested online
visitors
to not only enjoy this collection, but also to consider loaning or
donating vintage images of the area to the library for scanning onto
the site.
- Plymouth Public
Library
201 N. Center - Plymouth, IN 46563
Phone: (574) 936-2324 E-mail:
plylib@plymouth.lib.in.us.
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COUNTY GOVERNMENT
&
Vital Records
- Marshall
County Government Offices
- Marshall County Health Dept. (For Birth & Death
Certificates
from ca. 1882)
- 112 West Jefferson Street - Plymouth, IN
46563-1764 Phone: (574) 935-8565.
- Marshall Circuit
Court Clerk (For Marriage,
Divorce & Probate Records)
- Courthouse - Room 101 - 211 West Madison Street -
Plymouth, IN 46563
- Phone: (574) 936-8922.
- Indiana
State
Archives.
- 6440 E. 30th Street - Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone: (317)
591-5222
Naturalization
Databases for the Indiana counties of Blackford, Dubois,
Elkhart, Floyd, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Jefferson, Marshall,
Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Randolph, Switzerland,
Union, Wayne, and
Whitley.
Marshall County Communities
Bourbon Township communities
include:
Bourbon. - Bourbon Public Library
307 N. Main Street - Bourbon, IN
46504 Phone: (574) 342-5655.
Center Township communities
include: Inwood and Plymouth. - A Brief
History
of Plymouth, by the Elementary classes of Menominee, Jefferson,
Washington
and Webster Elementary.
- Marshall
County Historical Society and Museum
123 N. Michigan Street - Plymouth, Indiana
46563 Phone: (574) 936-2306.
- Plymouth Chamber of
Commerce
- The
Pilot
News
P.O. Box 220 - Plymouth, IN 46563 - Plymouth Public Library
- Genealogy
Room
201 N. Center - Plymouth, IN 46563
Phone: (574) 936-2324 E-mail:
plylib@plymouth.lib.in.us.
German Township communities
include: Bremen. - Bremen Public Library
304 N. Jackson Street - Bremen, IN 46506
Phone:
(574) 546-2849.
Green
Township is a primarily rural township.
North Township communities
include: Harris, La Paz, La Paz Junction and Linkville.
Fairmont appears on the
1875 Indiana Map, at/near the present day town of Harris.
Polk Township communities
include: Teegarden and Tyner.
Tippecanoe Township
communities include: Old Tip Town, Summit Chapel and Tippecanoe.
Union Township communities
include: Culver (Marmont), Hibbard, Maxinkuckee and Rutland. -
The
Yellow
River Post Office - "...Culver used to be calIed Marmont."
- The
Culver Academies - located on Lake Maxinkuckee, in Union
Township.
- Culver - Union
Township Public Library
- 107 N. Main Street - Culver, IN Phone:
(574)
842-2941
- Culver Through the Years - "presents a
gallery of hundreds of rare, vintage images of the Culver area."
The Culver Public Library encourages interested online visitors to not
only enjoy this collection, but also to consider loaning or donating
vintage images of the area to the library for scanning onto the site.
Walnut Township communities
include: Argos and Walnut. - Argos Public Library
119 W. Walnut Street - Argos, IN 46501
Phone:
(574) 892-5818.
West Township communities
include: Donaldson and Twin Lakes. Eagle Lake City
[historic] appears on the 1875 map of Indiana. - Ancilla College
- Donaldson, Indiana.
"...under the sponsorship of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus
Christ,
was organized as a junior college specializing in teacher training in
l937..."
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PROFESSIONAL
HISTORICAL
GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann
McRoden Mensch,
Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsite, and with the vast resources of the
Allen County
Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in
North
America. Search the Library's
online
catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a
location
or topic.
Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002-2008,
by Ann Mensch. All Rights Reserved.
Printed resources for this page include:
- Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer. First Edition,
Second Printing. Yarmouth, Maine: Delorme. 1998.
- School and Library Atlas of the World. Fred W.
Foster,
Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore, Illinois: School and Library
Publishing Company. 1982.
- New
Sectional Township Map of Indiana. Chicago, Illinois :
Higgins
Belden & Co., 1875.
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