Several Civil War soldiers were treated in the hospitals in Evansville, Indiana. A card of thanks was published from the Evansville mayor...

Mrs. Irene Black’s lifetime collection of local history and genealogy material was originally located in Bridgeport, Illinois, but in...

Some of you may have watched the John Wayne movie-- The Searchers --wherein a blonde blue-eyed young girl was kidnapped in Texas by the...

Car Barn or Fab Shop where pipefitters and sheet metal welders worked at Texaco. In the 1930s Texaco made thier own tank cars.

The only enforcement of the death penalty in Lawrence County, Illinois was that of Elizabeth Reed. She was however not a resident of...

Louis A. Leppke (1879-1966) of Omaha was something of an inventor, patenting the “Sav-Serve,” a combination serving plate and non-sliding...

The Southern Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church accepted the Hennessey site in Lawrenceville Illinois for the location...

Wooden barrels were made on site for shipment of motor oil and grease.

Kirkwood and Mills was a grocery store located in the Barnes block on North State Street across from what was then the location of the...