Lawrence Lore
Oct 291 min read
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...
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Lawrence Lore
Sep 196 min read
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...
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Lawrence Lore
May 131 min read
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...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 192 min read
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...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 20, 20231 min read
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...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 18, 20232 min read
Pinkstaff Inventors
Two researchers recently contacted the Historical Society about two inventors from the Pinkstaff area in the 1900s -Mark Bowman and...
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