Flight training was a dangerous operation. There were many planes in the air at once and they did a lot of night flying in all kinds of...

News of Boys in Service October 15, 1942 Bridgeport Leader   Word has been received of the change of address of Junior Chapman. He...

Saturday, a wonderful couple from Cumberland County Illinois drove down and donated this sign to the Historical Society. They had...

Soldiers returning from WWII faced a dismal housing shortage.  To accommodate them, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co developed a completely...

Page 1 of The Daily Record, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Monday, November 24th, 1947 Bodies of two Lawrence County War Heroes...

At the jury term of 1827 the whipping post was yet in use in Lawrence County, and James Langley and Levi Rush were each sentenced to...

Eugene Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bailey graduated from Sumner High School with the class of 1941 and then attended Sanford Brown’s...