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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Ind. Gov't. - More on: "Leaky roof a catalyst for moldy record books in Boonville"

Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 30th, Lydia X. McCoy has a follow-up today in the Evansville Courier & Press:

BOONVILLE, Ind. — Donning face masks, gloves and protective suits, Warrick County officials spent most of Wednesday going through volumes of moldy county records stored in the former Carquest building just off Boonville Square.

Officials were determining what could be destroyed and what needed to be salvaged.

"Everything that we are getting rid of (Wednesday) is either on computer or is a duplicate of something that is being kept some place else," said Warrick County Clerk Shannon Weisheit. "These are just records that the county has kept for years and years. It would be really expensive to reproduce them and clean them up, and they are of no historical value." * * *

Some of the "finds" of the day included an original plat map for the Rose Hill Cemetery in Newburgh from 1940, the treasurer's records of receipts from 1899 that determined how much taxes were that year and a ledger of receipts also from 1940.

And while the records may have been old, they weren't of historical value — only things the state says must be kept for a certain period of time, county officials have said.

(ILB - The last two paragraphs appear to be at odds.)

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 2, 2008 11:04 AM
Posted to Indiana Government