In November 1909 William E Ridgley and Al Noonan established the Bridgeport Auto Company in a 20 x 40 ft building at 214 Washington...

Brian Lumber Company was founded in Sumner Illinois in 1885 by John Brian. It was first located on the south side of the railroad tracks...

Lathrop’s Feed store, 421 E Olive Street Bridgeport, was one of Bridgeport’s oldest businesses. In the early oil field days, the business...

The following was compiled from issues of the Vincennes Sun Commercial, published on September 24, 25 and 30th 1921. Roy E. Laughlin, a...

EVery year near Halloween the researchers at the Historical Society receive numerous requests for information about the "haunted high...

Rose Robeson has been busy hunting obituaries for Tewalt and Price cemeteries. She found the following one for Parmenas W. Beckes, ...

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

Dr. John Frank Schrader was the son of Mr. and Mrs . Aaron Schrader, who were farmers. He was born in Lukin Township on November 7,...