The Floyd County Historical Society's general purpose shall be the promotion of historical study and investigation, more especially pertaining to the State of Indiana, and the County of Floyd, through the discovery, collection, preservation, organization and (if practical) the publication of historical facts pertaining to the said State and County; and by the collection and preservation of books, pamphlets, papers, maps, genealogies, pictures, relics, manuscripts, letters, journals, field-books and any and all other articles that will describe or illustrate the social, religious, political, or industrial progress of the said County and State.