WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – West Lafayette's oldest city records have a new home at Purdue University.

WLFI-TV reports that 25 bound record books dating from the 1860s to the 1940s are being moved to Purdue's Archives and Special Collections Research Center.
 
City Clerk-Treasurer Judy Rhodes says the records had been stored on the second floor of the police station under sprinklers since flooding forced the city to move its offices out of City Hall last year.
 
The records are all handwritten. The earliest ones were written when the city was the Incorporated Town of New Chauncey.
 
The records are now located in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Library inside Purdue's Stewart Center.