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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!    Sample jobs could be transcribing, indexing, photocopying, computer work, making archival boxes, describing and cataloging collections, storing collections, recording oral histories, using the computer to scan photographs and print them out, plus other jobs.  If you are interested in volunteering some time to "learn the ropes", please call Clary at 848-4963 or Barb at 848-4074 and join us in preserving Ely area history!

February 2008

A wall display is now in place in the Council Chambers focusing on the history of the City of Ely (Government, Fire Department, Library, 1972 Centennial Celebration, Conversion of the School into a Community Center).  Click on the "Displays" tab to the left for a preview.

October 2007

A display on early settlement in the Ely area is now complete and posted on the wall as you enter the Community Meeting Room in the lower level of the building.  Click on the "Displays" tab to the left for a preview.

July 2007 - ELY CHILDREN GO ON HISTORY WALK


Clary Illian of the Ely Community History Society leads
children on a "history walk".


Children look at the pictures in one of the historic wall
displays in the Ely Community Center.

     Children participating in the Ely Public Library Summer Reading Program, "Get a Clue", had a chance to learn some history on Thursday, July12. Clary Illian and Barb Horak of the Ely Community History Society led a group of about 30 children and parents on a history walk from the library to the History Center, which is located in the Ely Community Center.
     Along the walk the children learned that the town first grew because of the coming of the railroad, learned a bit about the downtown section and the old Ely bank, and identified some of the oldest houses on Walker Street.
     At the History Center the children learned that the building had once been the Ely School and discussed historic displays on the Center's walls. The children visited the history society's Archives Room and were each given a packet of historic Ely post cards at the end of the tour.

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