Merchants used to decorate their windows around the square with Christmas gift ideas. Heath Western Auto Abernathy Hardware...

News in the County in October 1879 Stuble & Co was the new undertaker in Lawrenceville.  They promised to keep on hand a good assortment...

When James Vermillion died, he left an interesting Will (dated June 19, 1834) to be probated (December 24, 1834) in Lawrence County....

Wayne Martin pictured above wrote Santa a letter Christmas 1924 Dear Santa: I am a little boy seven years old. I go to Filmore school...

Recently the editor of the blog recently this delightful email from Harold Mills. "The statue of the little girl which stands in Babyland...

In the early 1800s a single woman enjoyed the same rights as a man to enter contracts and manage property. However, when a woman married,...

The truth is rarely pretty or polite according to the Illinois State Archives researchers who oversaw the development of the Servitude...