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MCHS News Volume 10 Number 4

March 5, 2023
Family Reunions Return to Madison County
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MCHS News Volume 10 Number 3

March 5, 2023
Centennial Picnic Held at Oakdale
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MCHS News Volume 10 Number 2

February 5, 2023
The story of V-Mail, used extensively during WWII, as told by a Madison County GI
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MCHS News Volume 10 Number 1

June 12, 2022
Read about the mystery and unique history of the Burroughs house on Springfield Road in Fort Russell Township.
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MCHS News Volume 9 Number 6

June 4, 2022
Learn about the remarkable life of Mr. Dilliard, and his decades-long connection to the MCHS
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MCHS News Volume 9 Number 5

June 3, 2022
A look at the many breweries that operated in Madison County.
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MCHS News Volume 9 Number 4

November 23, 2021
A sample of historical photos from the collections of William A. "Bill" Shaffer and Millie Shaffer, featuring people and places in Madison County and Troy.
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MCHS News Volume 9 Number 3

November 23, 2021
The Illinois State Historical Society has recognized the work of Charlotte E. Johnson by presenting her with the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in documenting the stories of Black families in Illinois.
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MCHS News Volume 9 Number 2

November 22, 2021
Early firefighting in 19th century Madison County was both dramatic and dangerous, with fire an ever-constant threat when towns consisted primarily of wooden structures.
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MCHS News Volume 9 Number 1

November 22, 2021
Sears House kits that were sold by Sears, Roebuck & Company from 1908 to 1941. Kits consisted of house plans and everything else needed to construct a house, all ordered through catalogs.
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MCHS News Volume 8 Number 6

March 9, 2021
In 1963, the Madison County Historical Society purchased the Weir House, built for John Weir in 1836. Here you can read about the Weir family and their many contributions to Madison County.
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MCHS News Volume 8 Number 5

March 9, 2021
A mayor who died trying to save his town, a State’s Attorney’s home bombed, women who broke the glass ceiling, and more are all part of Madison County’s political history.
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MCHS News Volume 8 Number 4

December 17, 2020
The Village of Alhambra was founded in 1849. Ten years later a second village was platted less than a mile away! This newsletter explores the history of Alhambra and how the two villages became one.
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MCHS News Volume 8 Number 3

December 14, 2020
Roland Harris has been collecting and sharing the history of communities in the eastern part of Madison County for 70 years. His collective works have now been recognized by the State of Illinois.
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MCHS News Volume 8 Number 2

December 14, 2020
During the height of the tuberculosis epidemic, Madison County built a hospital dedicated solely to the care of TB patients.
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MCHS News Volume 8 Number 1

December 14, 2020
East of Edwardsville, in Pin Oak Township, more than 150 years ago, there was a settlement of Black farmers that author J. Eric Robinson calls “The Pin Oak Colony.”
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MCHS News Volume 7 Number 6

December 5, 2020
From 1899-1930s there were streetcars, known as electric railways, crisscrossing Madison County. The last holdout was a line between St. Louis and Granite City that discontinue service in 1958.
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MCHS News Volume 7 Number 5

October 20, 2019
John Wildi (1853-1910) was a Swiss immigrant to Highland who became an exceptional businessman, a founder of the company that later became Pet Milk, and a savvy real estate investor.
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MCHS News Volume 7 Number 4

October 19, 2019
Journalist Bill Tucker takes a look at the Village of Carpenter as remembered by some of former residents that remember it when it was still a bustling community of businesses.
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MCHS News Volume 7 Number 3

October 19, 2019
More than a century ago orphans in need of care came primarily from local families, but also from St. Louis, Chicago and from the famous Orphan Trains of the New York Juvenile Asylum.
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MCHS News Volume 7 Number 2

October 19, 2019
From itinerant peddler to a chain of department stores, generations of the Glik family, through hard work and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, have brought their business to a place of national prominence.
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MCHS News Volume 7 Number 1

October 19, 2019
This article profiles the history of three St. Jacob buildings that were built in the 1870s and are still in use today. All are connected, not just by age, but through the families that lived in them.
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MCHS News Volume 6 Number 6

October 19, 2019
The last quarter of the year 1918 was a difficult one for the country as well as Madison County where residents experienced wartime shortages, the medical crisis of the flu epidemic and the last days of WW I.
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MCHS News Volume 6 Number 5

October 19, 2019
The Catholic Church in Edwardsville was established in 1842, but German Catholics wanted a church of their own with services in their native language. They began planning for a new church in the 1860s.
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MCHS News Volume 6 Number 4

October 19, 2019
In 1837, William Emmert built a two-room house in the Six Mile Precinct of Madison County. The house, enlarged over time, is now the Old Six Mile Museum on Maryville Road in Granite City.
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MCHS News Volume 6 Number 3

October 19, 2019
In this issue, Lincoln scholar Dr. Stephen Hansen writes about Abraham Lincoln’s numerous journeys to Madison County where he met political friends, conducted business and a participated in a famous debate.
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MCHS News Volume 6 Number 2

October 19, 2019
Since 1965, thousands of students at SIUE have attended classes in the Peck Building, named for John Mason Peck, but few knew of his contributions to education in Madison County nearly two centuries ago.
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MCHS News Volume 6 Number 1

October 19, 2019
Museum Superintendent Jon Parkin tells about the early settlement of Illinois, where in many cases the military veterans were rewarded for their service and sacrifice with a land grant in Illinois.
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MCHS News Volume 5 Number 6

October 15, 2019
A pictorial exhibit at the Glen Carbon Heritage Museum was the inspiration for this newsletter that tells the story of early Glen Carbon through artifacts and photographs on a timeline of history.
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MCHS News Volume 5 Number 5

October 15, 2019
The Wood River Refinery that today produces nearly two per cent of the nation’s petroleum processing capacity was established here in 1917 on the leasing edge of an energy revolution.
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MCHS News Volume 5 Number 4

October 15, 2019
The Montgomery Station was once a thriving farm community where families gathered at the country store, met for platform dances and relied on the railroad to take their crops to market.
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MCHS News Volume 5 Number 3

October 15, 2019
On Easter Sunday of 1917, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church held the first service in their new church, the third building for the small congregation, founded in 1841, that held the status of “mission” for many years.
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MCHS News Volume 5 Number 2

October 15, 2019
Mary Westerhold, Madison County Archival Library Research Director, explores some of Madison County’s small, forgotten cemeteries
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MCHS News Volume 5 Number 1

October 15, 2019
Glen Carbon, Collinsville, Maryville and Edwardsville are known for their coal mining legacy, but nearly every community above the bluffs in Madison County at one time had a coal industry.
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MCHS News Volume 4 Number 6

October 15, 2019
The Godfrey Mansion still stands near the town of Godfrey, a town named for Captain Benjamin Godfrey. The stately home is one of a number of houses pictured in the 1873 Atlas of Madison County.
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MCHS News Volume 4 Number 5

October 15, 2019
The farming community of Grantfork had numerous names over the years. Although small a small town, it has one of the oldest businesses in the county: a restaurant that has been serving meals since 1895.
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MCHS News Volume 4 Number 4

October 15, 2019
In 1816, a squatter named John Cook built a cabin near what is now the corner of Orient and Church Streets in Collinsville. His improvements were later purchased by three brothers named Collins.
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MCHS News Volume 4 Number 3

October 15, 2019
After several unsuccessful attempts, in 1887 a group was finally organized to preserve Madison County’s History. They were the Madison County Old Settlers Union, but many called them “snow birds.”
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MCHS News Volume 4 Number 2

October 15, 2019
For three years, volunteers at the Madison County Archival Library worked to process over 44,000 probate files. Along the way, they found some interesting pieces of Madison County history.
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MCHS News Volume 4 Number 1

October 15, 2019
In 1833 the Illinois State Penitentiary opened in Alton. It closed in 1860 when a new prison opened in Joliet but re-opened the following year to serve as a prison for Confederate soldiers.
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MCHS News Volume 3 Number 6

October 15, 2019
Here are the stories of four Madison County Residents known nationally in their time, but forgotten today: Minna Inglis Clark Fletcher, Charles Helmuth Seybt, Vasil Stephanoff, and Charles Boeschenstein.
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MCHS News Volume 3 Number 5

October 15, 2019
The most recent Madison County Courthouse celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2015. Court was initially held in designated homes, followed by four buildings constructed specifically as courthouses.
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MCHS News Volume 3 Number 4

October 15, 2019
Troy was first settled in 1803 as Columbia. When the land was sold and platted in 1819, it was given the name of Troy. In its early years Troy was a stage coach stop along the National Road.
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MCHS News Volume 3 Number 3

October 15, 2019
Five authors, all descendants of immigrant families from Granite City’s Lincoln Place neighborhood tell the stories of their Armenian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Mexican ancestors.
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MCHS News Volume 3 Number 2

October 14, 2019
Madison County has many museums and historic homes where area residents and visitors can learn about our history and heritage. These articles provide information on those places that are open to the public.
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MCHS News Volume 3 Number 1

October 14, 2019
The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed millions world-wide, and Madison County was not out of reach. In the fall of 1918, nearly 500 Madison County residents died of the flu.
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MCHS News Volume 2 Number 6

October 14, 2019
During WW II, area residents were hungry for news of local servicemen. One of the ways they stayed informed was through letters and news stories that dominated local newspapers.
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MCHS News Volume 2 Number 5

October 14, 2019
The history of Alton has been influenced by its location on the Mississippi River that made it accessible. The river brought commerce, the first state prison, and some of the earliest railroads in the county.
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MCHS News Volume 2 Number 4

October 14, 2019
In the 19th Century Madison County weddings were usually simple affairs with immediate family only, or even elopements. Larger church weddings, inspired by the wedding of Queen Victoria, came later.
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MCHS News Volume 2 Number 3

October 14, 2019
Historian Cheryl Eichar Jett shared a few of Madison County’s most sensational crime stories that she has found in the course of her research on Route 66.
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MCHS News Volume 2 Number 2

October 14, 2019
For nearly a century, three generations of architects from the Kane family occupied a suite of rooms in Edwardsville’s Bohm Building. Their skill and artistry can be found throughout Madison County.
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MCHS News Volume 2 Number 1

October 14, 2019
The Madison County Archival Library at 801 N. Main Street in Edwardsville is a treasure trove of resources for anyone researching Madison County or their family’s genealogy.
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MCHS News Volume 1 Number 6

October 14, 2019
Some Madison County residents were known nationally in their time, but few know their names today. Here are stories of Emma Kubicek, Jacob Ammann and Walter Benjamin, all worth remembering.
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MCHS News Volume 1 Number 5

October 14, 2019
Surveyor Jeff Pauk and Gary Denue, a long-time collector of surveying instruments here explained how surveyors work and illustrate many of the instruments they used to survey the prairie.
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MCHS News Volume 1 Number 4

October 14, 2019
The average home had no air conditioning a century ago, so to cool off Madison County residents escaped to a number of area resorts that offered mineral baths, swimming, or just a day in the country.
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MCHS News Volume 1 Number 3

October 14, 2019
Nationally recognized authority on Route 66, author Cheryl Eichar Jett, shared stories of America’s Mother Road in Madison County communities.
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MCHS News Volume 1 Number 2

March 1, 2013
Alton resident Charlotte E. Johnson has spent decades researching the African-American story in Madison County. Here she shares her unique perspective on African American history and culture.
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MCHS News Volume 1 Number 1

January 13, 2013
Almost every Madison County community once had at least one theater or opera house. A few of those buildings still operate as theaters today, but others have been converted to serve other purposes.
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