Our museum and library will be closed over Thanksgiving on 11/27/2019 through the holiday weekend. We will be going to our winter hours of operation and be open only on Saturdays from 9:30 to 3:00 P.M. in December through February.
Marion Scout Pack 21 visits museum. Back L to R, Aydan Bryant, Jonathan Schieber, Eli Sprague, Cameron Randolph and Seth Patton. Front L to R. Nicholas Stroud, LG Lewis, Layton Townzen, Gavin Gile and Gunner Wells.
Cub Scout Pack 21 from Zion Church in Marion visited the museum on Tuesday evening, November 12, 2019, and had their photo taken in the newly renovated jail. They were accompanied by their leader Brad Andrews, their parents and a few siblings. Their tour guides were Sharon Vansaghi and Sam Lattuca.
Back L to R, Aydan Bryant, Jonathan Schieber, Eli Sprague, Cameron Randolph and Seth Patton. Front L to R, Nicholas Stroud, LG Lewis, Layton Townzen, Gavin Gile and Gunner Wells.
On Friday November 8, 2019 the Williamson County Historical Society sponsored the re-dedication of a plaque between the DAR and Williamson County Illinois Courthouse.
In 1977 the Daughters of The American Revolution, Daniel H. Brush Chapter presented a memorial plaque to the soldiers of the American Revolution buried in this county to the Williamson County Courthouse to commemorate the Bi-Centennial. The DAR also placed similar plaques in Franklin, Jackson and Perry Counties as their Bi-Centennial project. Continue reading
Darrel Dexter talking about slavery in Southern Illinois
The October membership meeting for the Williamson County Historical Society was held on October 27th, 2019 at their museum and genealogy library at 105 S. Van Buren Street in Marion. Past, ongoing and upcoming projects were discussed including military marker installations, historical county markers, and the transcription of local funeral home records. President, Sam Lattuca, reported that renovation of the cell block in the museum was near completion and only lacked restoration of informational displays to be completed. Continue reading
Williamson County Historical Society Museum and Library is used to having a variety of visitors from all over the United States and abroad. They come for many reasons, to research ancestors from the area, gather information to write books on the coal mines and unions, the railroads, Charlie Birger and other notorious people, unsolved murders, etc.. Others come to see the old jail built in 1913, coal mine exhibit, country store and many other items exhibited in the museum.
We also, are used to SI Visit coming to take photographs of items to use in travel and informational brochures. However, on Tuesday, October 7th, 2019 we had a special visitor. Her name is Carol M. Highsmith a Visual Documentarian of America for the Library of Congress and she came to photograph the museum to be part of her permanent collection at the Library of Congress. Continue reading