Two local history books covering Herrin from 1900-1974 by Lucille Vick Howell have been indexed and their indexes added to our Master Local History Index on this site. The two short books are entitled “Down Memory Lane” and Down Memory Lane, Another Stroll”.
WCHS is doing research on one of our early rural schools and would like assistance if you have any information about White Oak School. The school was known to be located on what is now Cobb Hill road about half way between Lake of Egypt Road and Sulphur Springs Road (see map).
We don’t have an exact start date but we are fairly certain it was started prior to the end of the Civil War in 1865. We do know it closed in the 1951-52 school year when it was absorbed by the Marion Community Unit School District #2. We also know the building was sold off to Carl Kimmel after its closure. Local family names would have been Kimmel, Dunn & Webb.
If you have any details as to the school and its starting date please contact us at wchsmail@yahoo.com or call 618-997-5863.
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.