By BETH ZUMWALT
The Pike County Historical Society says their reprint of the Nicolay Land Series will be available with in the next month.
The book contains a wealth of genealogical material as well as several stories about residents of southern Pike County, in the Greenland and Bee Creek areas.
NIcolay’s handwritten notes were found and Grace Mattison typed them into book form several years ago. Carol McCartney has retyped the book and sent it to the printers.
“Very few of the original books were ever printed and even fewer exist today,” Bob Evans, owner of a pristine copy of the book. “I bought mine at the auction they had when John Storm died. Storm was quite a historian and his father-in-law, John Rainwater, built two replicas of the 1839 Pike County Courthouses that are at the museum now.”
The PCHS has ordered 50 of the books which are expected to arrive within the month.
