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4-H Federation / McLean County Fair Collection
The 4-H Federation is an aggregate of 4-H members from clubs in McLean County, grouped into one representative body. The primary focus ...
Almanac
Almanacs are annual publications that include information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and oth...
Barn Keepers
Barns are the most important structure on a farmstead. The earliest barns in Central Illinois were modest log buildings, but by the mid...
Benjamin Farm Collection
This collection of farm management materials is from Kenneth and Paul Benjamin who farmed in Old Town Township of McLean County and spa...
Brown, Fred S.
The Brown family lived near Yuton Station, in section 14 of Dry Grove Township. S.H. Brown was a farmer and stock raiser. He was one o...
Corn Items Collectors Association Collection
Founded in 1981 as the Corn Husking Hook and Peg Collection Association, the group soon realized that corn items in general attracted b...
Dairies Collection
Bloomington-Normal has been home to family dairies that delivered milk to customers since the mid-1800s. In 1920, McLean County boasted...
Douglass, Emmett
Emmett Douglass was a country school teacher in Lexington around 1900 who later farmed. His wife was Ammy Rockel.The collection...
Draft Horses Collection
The history of Norman horses in Normal is closely linked to the Dillon family, first known as E. Dillon & Co. and, later, as Dillon...
Edward Miller Farm
(Gustave) Edward Miller was born at Danvers in 1886. He wed Lauraline Neal (1900-1977) in 1918 and the couple raised son Robert F. Mill...
Ewing, N. P. Family Farm Collection
The Ewing family, headed by Nathaniel Porter Ewing (4 Oct 1812 – 24 Jun 1876) and Nancy Elmira Young (24 Mar 1813 – 18 Mar 1897) came t...
Exhibit: Just Corn: The 'Amaizing' Story
The Museum exhibit, “Just Corn: The ‘Amaizing’ Story,” opened in 1997. It was curated by then-Museum Executive Director Greg Koos. A co...
Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Illinois Collection
In February 1903, seventeen farmers’ cooperative grain elevator companies met to form the Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Illinois...
Funk Bros Seed Company
The Funk family arrived in McLean County from Ohio in 1824. Over the years Isaac Funk acquired 22,000 acres of farmland and upon his d...
Funk, George Washington
George W. Funk was the firstborn son of the Hon. Isaac Funk, Sr. and Cassandra Sharp, founders and pioneers of Funk’s Grove. He was bor...
Gathman Collection
Mildred Scholl Gathman (1918-2001) was born in rural Arrowsmith and lived there much of her life. She graduated Illinois State Normal ...
George Weldon Funk Collection
George Weldon Funk was born to a prominent family in McLean, Illinois on October 30, 1895. His great-grandfather, Isaac Funk, had carve...
Grain Elevators
Grain Storage Facilities play an important role in the process of agricultural production in McLean County. The earliest record contain...
Hartzold Family
Henry Hartzold was born about 1862 in Lancaster, PA. He moved to McLean County in 1894, becoming a prominent farmer near Danvers. ...
Hilton and Schwoerer Farms
Guy Hilton bought a 160-acre tract next to his father’s farm in Section 11 of Dry Grove Township, and established a dairy herd in 1917....
International Harvester Farming Equipment
The International Harvester Company manufactured agricultural and construction equipment, automobiles, trucks, lawn and garden products...
McFee, John
John McFee was a well-known farmer, who also bred Berkshire swine. He lived four miles west of Bloomington. According to the articl...
Meadows Manufacturing Company
John Rocke had the idea to build a grain elevator to improve the slow and laborious method of scooping grain and corn into bins. Thus, ...
Moon Family
The Moon family collection contains a diverse amount of material, ranging from correspondence to autograph books to diaries. The collec...
O’Hara, William J.
William J. O’Hara (1896-1986) was born in the Hudson area, the son of Owen and Johanna O’Neil O’Hara. A lifelong farmer, he also served...
Portable Elevator
The company was started in 1898, located at the corner of Grove and McClun streets in Bloomington. The White-Evans Manufacturing Compan...
Runge
The Runge Collection consists both of public and private materials primarily from the 1930s and 40s related to their running of a farm ...
Satterfield Farm
William Franklin Satterfield, called Frank, was born on October 3, 1890 at Marion, Illinois and died September 16, 1967 in Bloomington....
See Family
Frank See was born in Virginia to Nimrod See and Margaret Sherman. He was a 34-year-old farmer at Stanford, Illinois, on July 2, 1900, ...
Tyner Farm Collection
This collection contains documents relating to the Stubblefield and Tyner families as well as the Tyner family farm....
Walker, Frank Albert
In the mid-1850s, the Joseph Walker family established a farm on the northern edge of Normal. Frank Albert Walker (d. 1939) was about s...