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Colonial Theatre once Colfax mainstay
As with most small town movie houses, the Colonial Theatre in Colfax offered area residents mor...

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Weston Cemetery Prairie window to lost world
In 1971, C.E. “Bud” Wink and Dr. Lee Garber of Fairbury undertook an investigation of five-acre...

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‘I-house’ early Corn Belt architectural style
Along Illinois Route 165 between the rural communities of Cooksville and Colfax in eastern McLe...

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Anchor School Circa 1900
The small community of Anchor, located in the northeastern corner of McLean County, was once ho...

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Big Dance in Colfax—100 years ago!
Museum volunteer Amy Miller recently donated a sizable collection of dance cards and other loca...

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Fashion Show Prep, late April 1958 Octavia High School, Colfax
This late April 1958 scene shows Octavia High School student Marcella Brucker at a sewing machi...

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McLean County Basketball Tournament Championship Game, Jan. 24, 1959
Gene Durham (22) of Saybrook-Arrowsmith High attempts a layup during the 1959 county tournament...

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McLean County Basketball Tournament Championship Game, January 21, 1966 Octavia 68, Lexington 48
For many years the biggest sporting event on the local calendar was the McLean County Basketbal...

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Village of Colfax February 14, 1938
The view is looking east. “A” is Main Street; “B” Center Street; “C” the Illinois Central Railr...

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World War II Scrap Drive Colfax, June 1943
In the early summer of 1943, some forty Colfax area residents, mostly farmers, gathered twenty ...

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Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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Nature's Forces
The McLean County farmers’ ability to make good choices drove their success or failure. But wit...

Digital Exhibit

Finding Aids

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Judd-Lucas Family
The Judd Family lived in Colfax, Illinois during the 20th century. The Judd and Lucas families ...

Finding Aid

Publications

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Colfax, McLean County, Illinois 1893

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Colfax, McLean County, Illinois 1899

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Colfax, McLean County, Illinois 1906

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Colfax, McLean County, Illinois 1914

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