Welcome to Spiceland Friends Church!
The library attempts to promote the unique heritage of Spiceland by collecting, preserving, and providing access to local and Henry County history, genealogical material, family histories, school and church records, maps, atlases, plat maps, photographs, diaries, cemetery records, and biographies and autobiographies that detail the history of our locality. The church provides for the preservation of this material and for its accessibility, as far as may be feasible, to all who wish to examine the contents of the library. Following is a sampling of what you will find. Only a few of the items may be checked out. The library is named after Richard P. Ratcliff, an 8th generation member of our congregation. He is the church's historian and is a very active member of the Spiceland community.
Additional Information:
Library hours: Wednesday – Friday, 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 noon; afternoon hours by appointment – please call 765-987-7182
Handicap accessible – No admission charge
401 W. Main Street, P. O. Box 27, Spiceland, Henry County, Indiana 47385
Telephone: 765-987-7835
E-mail: spicelandfriends@frontier.com
What The Library Offers
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Early Quaker histories
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Minutes & Proceedings of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Religious Society of Friends
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Abolitionist and Underground Railroad material
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Histories of Spiceland Quarterly Meeting of Friends
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Album of clippings and photographs pertaining to Spiceland Friends Meeting
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Spiceland Monthly Meeting removal certificates 1833-1885
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Spiceland Monthly Meeting men’s minutes 1833-1887
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Spiceland Monthly Meeting women’s minutes 1833-1874
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Spiceland Monthly Meeting minutes 1887-1982
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Minutes of Spiceland’s social and literary clubs including the Y.M.U., Tuesday-Lucernian, Engleside and Blue River County club
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Genealogical material on more than 650 Spiceland and Henry County Quaker families
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Bound family genealogies on the Hiatt, Hodson, Pickering, Whitely, Griffin, Ratcliff, Hinshaw/Henshaw, Painter, Applegate, Good, Mellett, Hickman, Stubbs, and Beard families
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Card file of the Spiceland and Spiceland Township residents who served in World War II
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Henry County marriages 1823-1839
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Wayne County marriages 1811-1860
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Birth, death, marriage, and meeting minutes for Friends Meetings in Wayne, Henry, Union, Hendricks, Orange, Washington, Parke, Boone, Bartholomew, Montgomery, Vermillion, Morgan, Marion, Vigo, Tippecanoe, and Hamilton counties
Dunreith (1898-1903) and Elm Grove (1836-1840, Wayne Township) preparatory meeting minutes
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Henry County cemetery and Bible records
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Henry County histories by Pleas, Boor, Hazzard, Bowen & Heller
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Land entry atlas for Henry County 1821-1849
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Henry County Atlases for 1857, 1875, and 1893
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1874 Henry County Directory
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William Dawson’s weather observations for Spiceland 1864-1874
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Dunreith histories
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Vertical files on numerous Spiceland Quaker families and general Henry County history
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Yearbooks for Spiceland Academy and High School
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Records of the Spiceland Academy and High School Alumni and Former Students Association
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Histories of Spiceland and early Henry County schools
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Catalogues and records for Spiceland Academy 1870-1921
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Day books for the Stone Quarry Mill
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Spiceland Township trustee records
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Records of the Spiceland Masonic Lodge 1914-2004, Odd Fellows Lodge, and Order of the Eastern Star
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Minutes of Spiceland’s social and literary clubs including the Y.M.U., Tuesday-Lucernian, Engleside and Blue River County clubs
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Records of the Spiceland Sanitarium and Mineral Springs Company
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Histories of the Whitewater Valley and Canal
Histories of the National Road (U.S. 40)
Books by Quaker authors (Elliott, Trueblood, Hamm, Thurman, West, Gulley, Mullen, etc.)
A large selection of Christian books
Poetry by Henry County poets