Announcements

The Museum will be closed on Holidays and from December 20, 2024
through  January 7, 2025.
We will be open January 7, 2025.

Tours are offered by appointment on days the museum is not open.
Please call to set up a time: 1-785-325-2198.
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Business  Advertizing  memorabelia.
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Educational Meetings

The general educational meetings are held in March, June, and September and rotates among the cities in Washington County.  (See the schedule below for the next meeting date, time and location.)

 
        HISTORICAL SOCIETY EDUCATIONAL MEETING

                      Thursday,  September  19, 2024
                                   
        Location and speaker to be announced.
                               
   EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND  ---   OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Membership  in the Washington County Historical Society is open to ANYONE interested in Washington County Kansas History and/or Genealogy.

ALL  ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS ARE DUE  JANUARY 1, 2024
                              

                                                  
                                                    Annual Membership dues are $10.00/year;
                                        Life - single $100.00 & couple $150.00

Name __________________________________________________

Address ________________________________________________

City _________________________  State _____________Zip Code _____________

E-Mail___________________________________

Checks payable to: 
  Washington County Historical Society and sent to 216 Ballard St., Washington, KS 66968
The Washington County Historical Society is a  501 © 3 not for profit organization -- all donation are tax deductable as no good or services are provided.

_______ Individual $10.00 Per year (January – December)

_______ Individual Life Membership                $100.00

_______ Family Life Membership $150.00 (Husband & Wife)

_______ Donation $______________     _______ Memorial/Honor Donation $______________                  

 In Memory of: ___________________________________

  In Honor of:  ____________________________________

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 Washington County Historical Records For Genealogy

Births -- 27,276 registered
Obituaries -- More than 42,000
Burials in Washington County -- 36,400
Deaths outside Washington County -- 21,344
Cemeteries -- 85 Washington County, 5 in adjacent counties
Tombstones -- 32,300 transcriptions
U.S. Census -- 1860 - 1930 (except 1890)
Kansas Every-family Ag Census -- 1875 - 1925
Marriages -- 15,882
Marriage Licenses on microfilm -- June 1868 - June 1991
Newspapers on microfilm -- 1873 - 2020 on 400 Reels
Barnes -- Aug. 6, 1885 - Jan. 26, 1989
Clifton -- Mar. 16, 1878 - April 27, 2007
Greenleaf -- Nov. 1901 - June 30, 1988
Haddam -- Nov. 22, 1879 - Oct. 20, 1949
Hanover -- Nov. 20, 1973 - May 31, 2019
Hollenberg -- Mar. 15, 1885 - Oct. 19, 1889
Linn/Palmer -- Feb. 23, 1884 - September 27, 2018
Mahaska -- Oct. 19, 1917 - Oct. 9, 1924
Morrowville -- May 15, 1924 - Aug. 7, 1948
Washington -- Mar. 5, 1869 - June, 2020
Family Files -- More than 2,000
Family Trees & Histories -- More than 50 volumes
School Records/Annuals
Church Records
Plat Books -- 1882, 1906, many years after 1935
Naturalization Papers -- (at court house)
Enemy Alien Registration List
Draft Registration Records -- WWI and WWII
Civil War Records