A Hand-Drawn Map Takes Readers Back to Shelbyville in 1875
Main Street, Clear Creek and the railroad appear in a map once used by local real estate agents.
Explore Shelby County’s History
Selected stories about the maps, documents and memories that preserve our county’s past.
The History Inside Shelby County’s 1913 Cornerstone
Street photographs, newspapers and relics from an earlier courthouse connected the new building to its past.
Read Shelby County’s 1929 History Online
The 268-page book by George L. Willis Sr. covers early towns, churches, schools, newspapers and courthouses.
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