Williamson County Illinois Historical Society

Marion High School Sophomore, Ryhan Fox, was looking for extra school volunteer credits over the summer and decided to spend his time working at the Williamson County Historical Society. Ryhan, is the son of Bobbie and David Fox and lives at the Lake of Egypt. He said that he had toured the museum while in the fifth grade at Washington School, enjoyed it, and wanted to donate his time here. Ryhan is a member of the Marion High School Varsity football team and has racked up 75 hours of volunteer time over the summer, helping advance the renovation of one of the display jail cells in the museum.

We will be holding a membership meeting here at the museum on Sunday, July 15^th, 2018, at 2:00 P.M.  We will be discussing society business as well as completed, ongoing and future projects as well as showcasing our newly remodeled Native American room.  If you have a show & tell item, feel free to bring it. The program will be presented by Mike McNerny who will be speaking about discoveries made in his latest book related to unusual tombstone markers.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and want to remind you that we are continually adding resources to our website at www.wcihs.org which have now exceeded 500,000 references online.

With the latest addition of the Creal Springs book, our website now contains over 410,000 index references from 175 of our most referenced books available online. When added to 97,000 court case references, we now offer over half a million references available to the public on our website.

Access our records by clicking on the Records tab on any page.