The indexing to two of our WCHS resources have been added to our Master Misc. County Records Index
One is an index to additional land grant copies held in the WCHS library and the other is a list of scanned original land grants that the museum stores. The originals can be in either parchment, paper of vellum.
The book Original Land Grants, 1824-1870, created by Charla Murphy, Mary Jo Moore and Jean Burke in 1997 and published by the Williamson County Historical Society has been indexed and added to our Master Misc. County Records Index.
A new historical marker was placed at 11060 Songbird Rd. (Khoury League Park) on Sunday, June 25th, 2023 at 2:00 P.M. Despite the heat, about 24 people showed up for the dedication service to mark the location of the old Cross Roads school. Below is the history behind the marker.
Continue readingThe local history book called “Nicknames & Other Things, A Memoric History of Pittsburg, Illinois” written by Marlene Richey and published in 1995 has now been indexed. The Index has been added to our Master Local History Index.