MCHS
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Topics We're Working on for 2023:
L.S. Ayres & Co. Department Store
The White Plague (Tuberculosis)
Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company
Kingan Co. & Meatpacking in Indianapolis
Indigenous Peoples Day
MCHS's own Dr. William McNiece and Bill Beck discuss the 2nd and 3rd waves of the Influenza epidemic of 1918-19 on the Hoosier History Live podcast.
OUR WORK
The Marion County Historical Society (MCHS) is a non-profit organization that was established in 1961 for all those interested in the history and culture of Marion County, Indiana. It was originally formed to advocate for historically significant architecture in downtown Indianapolis, but it now also includes programs and activities that explore and preserve our local heritage.
Through a variety of programs, conferences, grants, and publications, MCHS works to develop community awareness of our past and its impact on the present and future. Recent past programs have included:
Unigov: The Creation of Modern Indianapolis
The Mansions of Marian University
2021 Indianapolis Bicentennial Celebration Plan
The 1918 Pandemic: Indianapolis Confronts the Spanish Influenza
The Extraordinary Life of Janet Flanner
The History of Bobbs-Merrill Company
The Negro National League
LEADERSHIP
Board of Directors
President: William L. McNiece, M.D.
Vice-President: (open)
Secretary: Montoya Barker
Treasurer: Bill Beck
Board Members:
Steve Barnett
Ray E. Brown, Jr.
Carol A. Hall
Gerald Phillips
Website: Carl Bates
CONTACT US
Please direct your questions to us about Marion County, Indiana local history only. We are not a genealogy society and we have no holdings or archives. For genealogy information, please contact the Indiana Genealogy Society or the Genealogical Society of Marion County.
The Indiana State Library can help you with obituaries and information from old newspapers. Other sources to contact are the Indiana Historical Society and the vertical files in the Indianapolis Public Library branches.
Looking for information on the city of Marion, Indiana? Try the Grant County Historical Society.
To join the Marion County Historical Society, go here.