Updated: From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews. May 7, 1979 — No suspects have been apprehended in the murder of a Marion man and the wounding of another in a … Read More
Updated: Warsaw’s Board of Public Works and Safety approved a Memorandum of Understanding between the city and MACOG for two electric vehicle charging stations during a meeting Monday, April 5.
Read More Updated: From the files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society This is a history column that will appear a few times a month. Jan. 2, 1971 – Flames erupting in the early morning New Year’s dawn swept through the Pickwick block in downtown Syracuse, destroying everything in the quarter-block … Read More
Updated: According to a Facebook post by Kosciusko County Historical Society Director Greg Steffe, the Old Jail Museum in Warsaw will be closed to the public for the remainder of the year.
Read More Updated: From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews. Nov. 22, 1974 – The Local Government Tax Control Board granted a property tax collection increase of about $256,000 to the city of … Read More
Updated: From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews. Oct. 13, 1967 – More than 125 volunteer firemen waged a four-hour-long battle last night to bring under control a blaze that razed the three-story, … Read More
Updated: From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society This is a retrospective series that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews. March 23, 1978 — Total enrollment of the first Indiana Vocational Technical College courses offered in Kosciusko County has been estimated at 250 by Ivy Tech … Read More
Updated: Editor’s note: This special edition of Timeline from the Past chronicles one of Kosciusko County’s longest unsolved mysteries. WARSAW — One of Kosciusko County’s unsolved mysteries occurred 93 years ago in 1927, according to records kept by the Kosciusko County Historical Society. Frank Tucker, a 58-year-old cigar store … Read More
Updated: From the files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society: This is a retrospective column that will run a few times a month on InkFreeNews.com. Jan. 5, 1974 — Firemen battled near zero degree temperatures and a stubborn blaze that completely gutted the quarter-block Boice Building at the intersection of … Read More
Updated: From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society This is a retrospective series that will run a few times a month on Ink Free News. Dec. 19, 1973 — Venereal disease reached epidemic proportions in Kosciusko County, according to the Indiana Board of Health as it tracked cases … Read More
Updated: WARSAW – A Korean War uniform that belonged to a native of Warsaw has been donated to the Kosciusko County Historical Society. The uniform belonged to Charles Wiard, who was born in Warsaw but ended up living much of his life in Mishawaka. Wiard was drafted into … Read More
Updated: WARSAW — The Kosciusko County Historical Society paid tribute to Kosciusko County World War II veterans at the Kosciusko County Historical Society Dinner Wednesday, Oct. 16. The 11 WWII veterans in attendance were treated to a program, “Tribute to Our WWII Veterans,” organized and presented by Historical Society … Read More
Updated: WARSAW — The Kosciusko County Historical Society will host its 54th annual dinner at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the Center Lake Pavilion in Warsaw. All World War II veterans and a companion are invited to attend the dinner. The event will commemorate the 75th anniversary of … Read More
Updated: WARSAW — Some people just won’t slow down. To confirm that precept, witness the life of octogenarian Alice Surface Keirn of Warsaw. Case in point: on her 80th birthday in July, Keirn ventured zip lining at a zoo in Grand Rapids, Mich. “My sister came in from Arizona. … Read More
Updated: MENTONE — Mentone High School Alumni Association president Alice Surface Keirn and MHS history book editor Susy Nellans Creighton donated one of their recently published books to Sharon Whetstone, librarian, Kosciusko County Historical Society, at the museum in the former Kosciusko County Jail. Copies of the book will … Read More
Updated: KOSCIUSKO — Come join the Kosciusko County Historical Society on Friday, April 12, to commemorate the 85th anniversary of John Dillinger’s infamous raid on the Warsaw Police station. Relive the excitement of that fateful night when America’s most daring public enemy number one roamed the streets of downtown … Read More
