All I know is that it would seem to me that EVERYTHING up there is as a minimum historal and should enjoy the legal/archival protection of the state. As to public access, this also would seem to be part of the legal / archival protection umbrella, but somehow the county's responsiblity to the public seems to be ignored. ds ================== All I know, is that another researcher I regularly correspond with had done some research there in the last year. I think the conditions there were VERY bad and the records not bing taken care of. She's the one who mentioned they are closing the floor off to researchers because of "hazardous" conditions and I thought I would query the mailing list to see if anyone knew anything about it. I wonder why the historical society has not done something about it....unless their hands are tied. Julie