Updated Website to Launch Jan. 31, 2025

Oldham County History Center Launches New Website
January 31, 2025

The Oldham County History Center will launch an updated and redesigned website on Friday, January 31, 2025.  The page address will remain the same:  www.oldhamkyhistory.com

  “It has been long overdue and will feature more information about our programs and archives” according to the Executive Director for the history center, Nancy Theiss.  “There will be new sections on our research programs such as:  Morris Mount Roberts Fellowship, Harrods Creek Farm Burial Project, The Underground Railroad, our archaeology programs, The Ky. State Reformatory, just to name a few.  For example, most people don’t realize we have the longest running archaeology field school in Kentucky.  We opened the Bibb Escapes/Gatewood Plantation site in 2004 and closed it in 2023.  Last year we began a new archaeology program at Winnrose Farm which is the ancestral farm of the Duncans in Oldham County, which includes the Duncan burial ground of Moses and Cynthia Duncan. Alexander Duncan who built Duncan Memorial Chapel, is a direct descendent of this family.”

“There will be a listing of our family files, catalogues and records.  We have index files of Oldham County’s first families with valuable information for genealogy work as well as historical information.  Of course our search index for Cemetery and Graves of Oldham County will be included, like it was on the old website.  We will continue to add a list of our collections such as the Warner and Harriet Jones Collection, D. W. Griffith Collection, WWI and WWII artifacts and letters, family scrapbooks and bibles.  We have volunteer archivists who have been digitizing our court records for several years and putting them on Past Perfect Software.  We plan to connect to Past Perfect directly in the future so people can start accessing those digitized records.”

“We are the only museum in the state of Kentucky that has two designations on the National Park Service National Underground Railroad Project.  We have all of the research from those designations which are valuable sources.  In addition we are working on more designations which we hope to add in the near future.”

“People will still be able to access our podcast “Thirty Days of Stories on the UGRR” and we are including a special section on our Living Treasures Oral History Program so people can view the people who have participated in the program which at present is 200 participants.  In the future we hope to include the transcriptions.”

The website was designed by Kiley Walker, of Noteworthy Creative Group, a small graphic design firm located in downtown La Grange. Noteworthy has been providing expert design, advertising, marketing and printing for over 20 years to the Oldham County and Louisville Metro area. Area non-profits, large international businesses and many start ups rely on their firm for personalized one-on-one web and graphic design.

The owners, Devan Gunderson Lindemier and Ryan Lindemier, have grown up in Oldham County, and are now raising their family here, while securing roots for their business’s, family’s and small town’s future by keeping business local. Noteworthy Creative is 100% Oldham County owned, and run completely by La Grange residents. Located on 213 S. First Street, their shop now serves as the local print shop and go-to for all things screen printed and embroidered.

For More Information:  The Oldham County History Center, 106 N. Second Ave., LaGrange, KY 40031   502.222.0826   info@oldhamkyhistory.com  www.oldhamkyhistory.com