Added a photo of the Lions Club hat once owned by Charles Kouns to the odds and ends page.
​Added some newspaper clippings. Added photos of the Luaghner farm to the buildings page and Laughner pages. Updated a couple captions on the buildings page with new info I was provided. (Cornwell home, Yeadon home, Raiload depot picture, McCoy home)

Records and photos that I have found or been provided with, have not always been stored in a safe manner. I have purchased 2 Schwab5000 fireproof/bombproof file cabinets which now house a majority of the collection of Whitestown history in my possession. Do I need more secure storage? yes!  But this is a good start and finally provides a higher level of safety than previously afforded to these pieces.

I added photos of a New York Central conductors hat to the railroad page.
I also added a new photo to the top of the building & homes page that shows a really cool aerial view of Whitestown.

Additionally, I rearranged several pages. All of the assorted pages that were listed in the dropdown under the homw page tab have been moved to a new menu tab called "assorted". The home tab now only contains the blog & contact pages in it's dropdown menu.

I posted a 50 page booklet for the Big Four railroad route to the railroad page. It's at the top of the page with a preview page (red lettering)

I added photos of a lantern, locks, spike, and stocks associated with the Big Four railroad.

I also added 11 school certificates belonging to Maneta and Mary Louise Laughner to the Laughnere family page (at the bottom)

It's been a while since I have had a chance to update this site, but I wanted to make sure and finish scanning all of the WHS alumni photos and get them on the school page before the alumni reunion coming up on June 16th. So, the last 41 photos have been aded to the school page.

Added 2 more groups of photos to the school page. Added a store pic to the buildings page, and added a photo of children along the tracks to the railroad page

Uploaded several images that I scanned the other night. new photos under people, buildings, and newspaper section.
I created a dnew page under the home tab entitled "narratives" and added several images

I have been scanning photos received from Janice West and have added several photos to various pages including people, railroad, school, and buildings

I created a new page to display old trophies, mostly from WHS. The new page can be found under the school tab

I visited town historian Janice West today and she shared a bunch of stuff with me, which means a LOT more scanning

I added a coal advertisement to the odds and ends page

I added 8 photos to the railroad page

I added a play about the history of St. Marks church to the buildings page

added a couple pics to the odds and ends page of a potholder from the lumber center

added a couple pics of the train depot to the railroad page

added a new page titled "Albert White documents" along with several documents related to the man

Added a new page under the home tab to give a snapshot look at the year 1851

Added a railroad map of Indiana from 1852 to the railroad page

Added a video about Whitestowns namesake to the home page

I added some new pictures to the top of the school page that I took at the recent alumni gathering.
The photos include plaques, trophies, and clothing

Scanned in information about Whitestowns sesquicentennial celebration in 2001.
The information is gathered together in a new page under the "Home" tab
Enjoy

Got in some scanning time between Christmas and New Years while I was off work.
Added 26 photos to the school page

Managed to sneak in a couple hours of scanning this afternoon while trying to beat the heat and hanging out in the air conditioning and watching a Cubs game on TV

After spending several hours scanning a portion of the collection from the Whitestown High School Alumni, I have uploaded the first 83 photos under the school tab.
I have also created a page for the Lincoln Funeral train and added some content.
I also created a page for oddities and mysteries from the history of Whitestown including a giant skeleton that was discovered, a missing treasure, and a nearby ghost town.

I think I underestimated how much time this site would consume.....lol

Initial content added during the first 10 days after the website was created

Hello, my name is Mike Hancock and I am a life long resident of Whitestown Indiana and descended
from the William Laughner family who came here from Greene County Tennessee and settled in the area
of Worth Township in 1849. This area would later become Whitestown in 1851.

Historical information about Whitestown exists in written form in a variety of different locations, but I've always hoped it might be possible to gather as much information together in one place and make it readily available to the citizens of this ever growing town, and that was the inspiration for this website. A digital format to showcase archived information, sort of an online museum of sorts. This site was created on 6/21/2017

Recognition shoud be given to Janice West who has spent many years collecting and saving historical information about Whitestown. Recognition should also be given to Mary Louise Laughner-Hancock and Lois Lindley who took the time to preserve and pass down information about the early days of the town.