This is one of several photographs of a house belonging to the Childress family taken after the tornado struck the Pinkstaff area in...

We do not have digitized county newspapers for March 1879-August 1879 so the researchers had to look for local news in the Vincennes and...

The general stores in small communities sold a little bit of everything. To encourage shoppers, some gave away chinaware, or sold it at a...

The first railway charter granted by the Illinois General Assembly was to the Chicago and Vincennes Railroad in 1835. The demand for...

The first railway charter granted by the Illinois General Assembly was to the Chicago and Vincennes Railroad in 1835. The demand for...

Two researchers recently contacted the Historical Society about two inventors from the Pinkstaff area in the 1900s -Mark Bowman and...

Several years ago, David Foote, a volunteer, transcribed the news from Lawrence County as printed in the Robinson newspapers. Since...