Local Myth

Resources are listed in alphabetical order. More information can always be found by using our website search bar, or contacting a member of our staff.

Abraham Lincoln in McLean County

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Real or Not Real?

Can you tell the genuine items from the pretenders? Sometimes it is difficult for museum profes...

Digital Exhibit

Articles

A small selection of Pages from our Past articles written by Bill Kemp

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dozens of people are in this image, all standing looking towards the camera. Dirt is in the foreground, as well as a large steamroller. In the background is a two-story brick building, homes, trees, and utility poles. Many men are holding buckets and shovels.

First brick street in U.S. myth endures in Bloomington

At the southwest corner of the Courthouse Square, near the intersection of Center and Washingto...

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Intrepid Pantagrapher paid visit to Santa’s North Pole

In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon famously wrote the New York Sun newspaper to ask if that ...

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