Volunteers Accomplish Key Records & Archives Tasks
We would like to recognize our volunteer Neil Phelps for his excellent work. Neil has been a dedicated volunteer with the Records & Archives Department since October 2010. Under the supervision of Records Clerk Bill Markley, Neil has recently helped in salvaging several boxes of records from the Historic Licking County Jail on 3rd Street in Newark. During the past few decades, records of various county agencies were stored in that building. Those records are now being inventoried, re-boxed and moved to the Records & Archives Department facility, which provides better conditions for storage and access. In addition to this large project, Neil has also cleaned the pages of 19th and early-20th century Jail Registers, which are volumes that provide information about the inmates. Cleaning old records such as these helps preserve them for future use. Neil is also currently working on a history of the Historic Licking County Jail as a personal pursuit. If you have any info