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.
Select from the TOWNSHIPs
Table below to view information and links specific to the township.
Disclaimer: Though the information on this web page is believed to
be correct, the possibility of error remains. Please notify the webmaster should an error be
found.
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
P.O. Box 41 - Peru, Indiana
46970 Phone: (765) 473-9631.
MUSEUMS
123 N. Michigan Street - Plymouth, Indiana
46563 Phone:
(574) 936-2306.
COMMERCE, TOURISM & ONLINE COMMUNITY
NATURE
NEWS & NEWSPAPERS
P.O. Box 220 - Plymouth,
IN 46563
CHURCHES
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.
- Fulton County Public Library
(Fulton County, IN
Rochester
Branch)
SCHOOLS and EDUCATION
BIOGRAPHIES
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.
- Marshall County
Historical Society and Museum
- 123 North Michigan Street – Plymouth, IN 46563, Phone:
(574) 936-2306
- Plymouth Public Library
- 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
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Online
Databases
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Indiana Cemetery
Locator Database
o
Indiana
Biography Index
o
Index of
Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
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Index
of Indiana Marriages, 1993 through 2000
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Newspaper
Holdings: Holdings by county
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Images
of Indiana: 92 Counties // from Adams to Whitley
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Indiana
Public Libraries
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Map
of Indiana Libraries.
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WWII Servicemen
Database
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Indiana Plat Books
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
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.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
& Vital Records
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.
307 N. Main Street - Bourbon, IN 46504
Phone: (574) 342-5655.
Center
Township communities
include: Inwood and Plymouth.
123 N. Michigan Street - Plymouth, Indiana
46563
Phone: (574) 936-2306.
P.O. Box 220 - Plymouth,
IN 46563
201 N. Center - Plymouth, IN 46563
Phone: (574) 936-2324 E-mail: plylib@plymouth.lib.in.us.
German
Township communities
include: Bremen.
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.
- "...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.
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.
"...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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