Recently, our researcher has been working on organizing our family files and binders (we are still in the A’s). The Adams’ family binder...

Manuscript on “Cromwell McVitty” prepared by Raymond Greene, Lewistown Pennsylvania August 28, 1934. Read before the...

Don't forget to attend the LHS play, “Voices from the Hanging” on TONIGHT Friday, May 23, 2025, at 7 p.m. in the LHS auditorium. (It's...

In the last half of the 17th century Marquette, Hennepin, Joliet and LaSalle explored the county drained by the Mississippi and Ohio...

Explore the Historic Trails from Purgatory Swamp to the Five Mile House Robinson, IL –  The Central Wabash Archaeology Chapter (CWAC)...

Jacob Gowen, an African American, was born in Henry County Virginia in the year 1762, but his birth records were lost according to him by...

According to an article written by Ruth Anderson Walker of the Northern Indiana Center for History for an unnamed newspaper May 7, 1995,...

Jesse Anderson , a free African American, owned a farm about 2 ½ miles southwest of Fort Allison erected near Russellville Lawrence...

From the diary of Mr. Birbeck of Albion Illinois in 1817 wherein he described the Native Americans in Vincennes. “Vincennes exhibits a...

Edward Perry Fyffe was born in Fort Allison Illinois, during the Native American uprisings when the settlers were forced to inhabit the...