The mission of the Flagler County Historical Society is to promote historical and cultural research and education for the benefit of the community. This non-profit manages the Holden House Museum, as well as a museum and a unique research library in an annex behind the house. The annex contains clothing, furniture and other artifacts of early Flagler County along with many fine collections including bound volumes of The Flagler Tribune, 1918-1980; copies of the Bunnell Home Builder, 1912-1918; early Florida, St Johns and Flagler County maps; over 125 matted and framed photographs of the early years; over 6,000 alphabetized obituaries published in area newspaper; individual files on early Flagler; individual files with information on Flagler places and organizations; and a searchable computer family database of over 235,000 names from Northern Florida and Southern Georgia.
