Musings from the museum: Sixty years later By Henry C. Pollock Editors Note: This article is reprinted from an original article written in the 1980s by the son of TCHA’s first curator, Bird Pollock. Moving Day used to be the first of May every year. Leases were made to start and end on this day. […]
Helen Gougar From the Women’s Suffrage exhibit presented by TCHA in 2020 and 2021. Text prepared by Hannah Craddock Mossman. Helen Jackson Gougar (1843-1907) worked tirelessly for women’s rights. After graduating from Hillsdale College, Gougar moved to Lafayette in 1860 to take a job as an assistant teacher. She eventually became the principal of Jenks […]
Second Baptist Church A Cultural Contribution from Southern Freedmen By guest blogger, Mary Anthrop “I didn’t even catch cold….” John Fields describing his baptism in the old canal at the foot of Salem Street in the 1870s Lafayette Journal and Courier, March 27, 1941 When recently emancipated enslaved people after the Civil War […]
The Birth, Life and Death of the American Porch By guest blogger, Quentin Robinson There is a lot to see and admire when walking or driving through historic neighborhoods. One of the architectural elements that might attract your attention are the porches on some of the older homes. The original idea of a porch can […]
The Immigrant Sea Journey from the Netherlands By guest blogger Mary Anthrop “…in listening to the conversation of other passengers, I am now beginning to understand how long this voyage is going to take. Had I know this, I would never have left the Fatherland” Excerpt from a letter of Pieter T. Dykhuizen(1) Hollanders in […]
50 Year-old Packet Unsealed This article first appeared in the TCHA newsletter, Weatenontes Vol. 17, No. 6, July-August 1984. A small brown packet, deposited in the Archives of the Tippecanoe County Historical Association on June 15, 1934, and ordered sealed for 50 years, was opened June 15, 1984 by TCHA Archivist Sarah Cooke, in the […]