Horsham Historical Society was formed at a meeting on 13th May 1957 with 10 inaugural members and membership set at 5 shillings. Today they have an average of 80 members, including 6 life members, and an extensive Horsham and district local history collection of information. They still abide by the original charter …’to foster the collection and preservation of local history records‘.

Horsham Historical Society has an extensive local history collection of the city and district, including:

• Hundreds of files of information on people, businesses, buildings and organisations
• Thousands of photographs dating from the 1870s to the present day, currently being indexed
• The Horsham Times newspaper index up to 1900 of births, deaths, marriages and businesses
• Government Gazettes
• Town and district maps
• Horsham burial records from 1920 to 1999, completely indexed
• Original Horsham Times and Wimmera Mail-Times newspapers from 1886 to 2015. (Editions before 1960 inaccessible to the public due to their fragility but available on microfilm at Wimmera Regional Library, Horsham or the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.) The Horsham Times 1882 – 1954 can be searched on the Australian National Library Website (Trove)
• District history and family history books
• Oral history tapes
• Borough of Horsham Rate Books, digitised 1883 – 1934
• History of all Horsham hotels
• History of all lawyers and law firms (see Legal History of Horsham on Publications page)

Open Tuesday Wednesday 1.30 pm – 4.30 pm.