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Most of what ends up on this site comes from somebody who knew something and took ten minutes to send it in.

Our standard

  • We publish stories about people and places in LaGrange County.
  • We verify dates, names, and claims about specific families or businesses.
  • We say when something is family memory rather than documented fact. Both are welcome.
  • We do not publish attacks on private individuals.
  • Being written about is free and always will be.

Add or update a business

Free, always. Every business in the county is welcome here.

Pick the closest one. If none of them fit, choose "Not sure" and we will file it.

A sentence or two. What you do and who you do it for.

Are you the owner?

So we can come back with a question. We do not add you to anything.

Tell your business's story

Seven questions. Answer what you can and skip what you cannot. We will come back if we need more.

Do you have old photographs?

We will follow up about scanning them. Nothing is published without your say so.

So we can come back with a question. We do not add you to anything.

Share a piece of county history

A person, a place, an event, a building, a family. Family memory is welcome alongside documented history. We label them differently and we publish both.

A decade is fine. So is a guess.

This is the important one. It tells us how to check it and how to label it.

Do you have anything we can scan?

So we can come back with a question. We do not add you to anything.

Submit a photograph

Historical photographs are the most valuable thing anyone sends us. Send a link rather than a file, because a good flatbed scan is far too large for a web form.

We do not publish photographs of Amish individuals. This is out of respect for a belief held across the settlement, not a policy we came up with.

Buildings, storefronts, farms, landscapes, and hands at work are all welcome. If you are not sure, send it and we will ask.

Upload it to the shared folder linked above, then paste the link here. No account needed.

A decade is fine.

May we publish it?

So we can come back with a question. We do not add you to anything.

Add an event

Reviewed before it goes up. Nothing posts automatically.

Write "Free" if it is free.

Add or correct a resource listing

Also the way partner organizations update their own entry. No listing in this section is ever paid for.

Are you with this organization?

So we can come back with a question. We do not add you to anything.

Submit a correction

Corrections are public and dated at the bottom of the piece. We do not quietly edit something we got wrong.

So we can come back with a question. We do not add you to anything.

Something we should look into?

For people who know something but have no story to hand us. Three fields, nothing else.

Optional. One follow up question is usually the difference between a lead and a piece.

Optional. A link to a photograph, a document, or a page.

We read every one. We can't chase every one, but the good ones end up on this site eventually.

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