Hawkins County Online
Hawkins County Online: "By Bill Grubb
Staff Writer | wgrubb@xtn.net
ROGERSVILLE - Although volunteers are providing the labor, a $1,000 donation from Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital will help the Friends of the Hawkins County Archival Project preserve Hawkins County’s past.
Since the first of this year, volunteers have been working at their McKinney Avenue location sorting through, cleaning and filing boxes of county records that were originally stored in the basement of the Hawkins County Courthouse.
According to Jack Goins, Hawkins County Archivist, the group has filed more than 13,720 individual documents from the Circuit Court Clerk’s office covering a period up to 1950.
“These records are ready to be microfilmed by the state and they are over in Greene County right now so they will be here next,” Goins said.
Goins said the group is now beginning the process of working on Chancery Court records.
“We figure there are probably about three times as many Chancery Court documents to go through so we still have a lot of work ahead of us,” Goins explained."
Staff Writer | wgrubb@xtn.net
ROGERSVILLE - Although volunteers are providing the labor, a $1,000 donation from Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital will help the Friends of the Hawkins County Archival Project preserve Hawkins County’s past.
Since the first of this year, volunteers have been working at their McKinney Avenue location sorting through, cleaning and filing boxes of county records that were originally stored in the basement of the Hawkins County Courthouse.
According to Jack Goins, Hawkins County Archivist, the group has filed more than 13,720 individual documents from the Circuit Court Clerk’s office covering a period up to 1950.
“These records are ready to be microfilmed by the state and they are over in Greene County right now so they will be here next,” Goins said.
Goins said the group is now beginning the process of working on Chancery Court records.
“We figure there are probably about three times as many Chancery Court documents to go through so we still have a lot of work ahead of us,” Goins explained."
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