Charlestown-Clark County: Genealogy - Indiana Memory Project

Genealogy - Indiana Memory Project

Indiana Memory - Digital Collection

Use this form for any inquires about the library's collection.

Indiana Memory was created by Indiana State Library to bring together original source documents of the history of Indiana. Institutions from across the state contribute to this online digital project.

Hoosier State Chronicles is Indiana's digital historic newspaper program.

Beginning in 2007, Charlestown Clark County Public Library began digitizing its collection and adding it to Indiana Memory. We are continuously adding items. The library has two collections on Indiana Memory.

Jesse G. Dorsey World War II Correspondence
	This collection contains 1791 letters, postcards, greeting cards, photographs, scrapbooks and more that Jesse Dorsey collected during World War II. Dorsey, who worked for the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana, began a letter writing campaign to area soldiers. He kept those letters and later donated his collection to Sellersburg Library. The collection contains a few objects that help tell the story of how Dorsey and the Speed, Indiana community supported the war effort. Greetings From Home Christmas 1943, Sellersburg, Indiana Entertainment Scrapbook 1, 1942-44 Community House, Speed, Indiana Entertainment Scrapbook 2, 1944-45 Community House, Speed, Indiana Complete list of service men entertained at Speed Community House 1942-1945, Speed, Indiana Service men entertained at Speed, Indiana news story 1945 by Jesse Dorsey Suggestion for the entertaining of soldiers by Jesse Dorsey 1942 Weekend entertainments for soldiers in Speed, Indiana news story 1942 by Jesse Dorsey
Read about the Jesse G. Dorsey Collection and the history of the Louisville Cement Company. This collection is kept at the Sellersburg Library.

Clark County Collection This collection contains thousands of items of Clark County history. There are maps, letters, newsletters, ledgers, Civil War letters, photographs, documents, brochures, yearbooks, personal documents, church histories and much more. As the digitization of additional items is completed, they will be added. The original items are kept in Charlestown Library Special Collections (unless otherwise noted below) and can be viewed upon request.
Here are links to some groups of items in the collection. church histories Korean War letters Civil War letters cement industry Louisville Cement Company Indiana Army Ammunition Plant railroads post cards letters ledgers Silver Creek schools Charlestown schools Henryville schools Borden, Indiana Charlestown, Indiana Sellersburg, Indiana Speed, Indiana Henryville, Indiana New Washington, Indiana Utica, Indiana Jeffersonville, Indiana Speed Community House
Yearbooks - more will be added as they are digitized Borden High School yearbooks Charlestown High School yearbooks Henryville high school yearbooks New Washington High School yearbooks Silver Creek High School yearbooks
The originals of these items are kept at Sellersburg Library. Jesse G. Dorsey Korean War Correspondence Sellersburg and Speed Schools Commencement Program, Sellersburg, Indiana 1898 Speed Mixer - Newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company (1955-Jul, Oct, Nov, Dec; 1956-Mar, Apr, May, Jul) The Speed Way 1957-1968 - Newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company, Speed, Indiana (1 issue missing) The Speedometer 1921-1929, 1941-1945, 1950, 1952, 1954-1956 - Newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company, Speed, Indiana (Not a complete set. Not published in 1930s.) The Warning Star 1937 - Newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company, Speed, Indiana