The Lane Libraries are pleased to present these valuable local history resources from noted educator, newspaperman and Butler County historian Jim Blount:

Butler County Place Names

Summaries of Columns
published in the Hamilton Journal-News, 1988 - 2009
published by Lane Libraries on web, March 2009 - present

Current column

Books by Jim Blount (added 12/31/2007)
Each file is 500kb-1500kb in size. Adobe Portable Document (.pdf) format, Adobe Acrobat Reader or other .pdf reader required.

Butler County Biographies [2001] by Jim Blount
13 parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Butler County's Greatest Weather Disaster: Flood, 1913 [2002] by Jim Blount
10 parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Railroads of Butler County by Jim Blount [1999]
18 parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Rossville, Hamilton's West Bank: Its People, Ghosts,Places, Bridges and Businesses [1994] by Jim Blount
14 parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14