The Pinkstaff Tornado of 1956
This is one of several photographs of a house belonging to the Childress family taken after the tornado struck the Pinkstaff area in...
Lawrence Lore
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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They’s all the feet I’ve got!
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...
Lawrence Lore
Sep 19, 20246 min read
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Walmarts of their Day
The general stores in small communities sold a little bit of everything. To encourage shoppers, some gave away chinaware, or sold it at a...
Lawrence Lore
May 13, 20241 min read
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Early Trains in Illinois
The first railway charter granted by the Illinois General Assembly was to the Chicago and Vincennes Railroad in 1835. The demand for...
Lawrence Lore
Feb 19, 20242 min read
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Railroads and Railroad Towns
The first railway charter granted by the Illinois General Assembly was to the Chicago and Vincennes Railroad in 1835. The demand for...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 20, 20231 min read
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Pinkstaff Inventors
Two researchers recently contacted the Historical Society about two inventors from the Pinkstaff area in the 1900s -Mark Bowman and...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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1880-1883
Several years ago, David Foote, a volunteer, transcribed the news from Lawrence County as printed in the Robinson newspapers. Since...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 8, 20234 min read
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