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Articles

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Silos sentinels of Corn Belt since late 19th century
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Local tractor company never gained traction
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Portable Elevator plant closed in 1987
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Picture postcard speaks to power of donations
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McLean County’s first corn farmers also mound builders
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Donated letter window into family tragedy
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100 Bushel Club pushed corn yields in the 1950s
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Barns fast disappearing from Corn Belt countryside
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End of horse era spurs revolution in barn design
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Honeybees sweetened 19th century life in Central Illinois
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Black farm family prominent in Bellflower Township
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Oxen the original ‘work horses’ of the prairie

Biographies

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Read, Roland
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Brokaw, Abraham
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Funk, Benjamin Franklin
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Scott, Julia Green
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Bakewell, Edwin
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Vrooman, Carl
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Vrooman, Julia Scott
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Dillon, Ellis
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King, Mary Reed
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King, Samuel Noble

Blog

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James Moberly Farm Funks Grove Township, May 1936

Frank Simpson’s Steers Farmer City, July 1957

Freitag children, rural Stanford February 1959

Corn farming in McLean County … 800 years ago!

McLean County Fairgrounds, 1956

Improvements Slated for Danvers, 1936

Randolph from On High Undated Aerial

Society Horse Show Fans Field, Bloomington, 1953

Grand Champion Gilt McLean County Fair, Aug. 6, 1958

Willard and Joel Yordy Heyworth Township, August 1938

Heyworth Area Good Neighbors November 6, 1950

WW II Rubber Shortage Shirley Farm, March 1942

Top hog gets pie January 1947

Tot Tries Tiny Tractor August 1947

Photo of the Week, 129: Reserve Champions Illinois State Fair, August 17, 1949

Farm Progress Show Comes to McLean County September 1994

Chopping and Blowing Hay Brown Estate, June 1941

‘Golden Gleam’ Grabs Trophy Society Horse Show, Bloomington, 1953

Nation’s Best Corn Huskers November 1939

Grand Champion Poland China ISNU Farm, January 16, 1947

4-H Lamb Show June 27, 1951

John Thomas’ new corn crib June 1958

Corn Belt Harvest September 1939

An apple (or bushel) a day … Lilly Orchard, October 1950

Whoa dude! ‘Hemp for Victory,’ 1942

Photo of the Week, 11: Corn Planting, May 1937

Bloomington Fire Station No. 2 214 W. Washington St., c. 1883

Events

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Lacto-Fermentation 101: DIY Kimchi with the University of Illinois Extension -REGISTRATION CLOSED!

Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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Frontier Resources

Erosion

Hand Tools and Mechanization

New Technology: Bigger Equipment

New Technology: Computers

Government Aid and Programs

Farm Improvements

1853 to 1899: Feeding and Breeding Livestock

1946 to 2000: Corn and Soybean Crops

Marketing Our Crops

Newspapers and Magazines

Home Bureau

Farm Wives

Finding Aids

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Brown, Fred S.

Corn Items Collectors Association Collection

Douglass, Emmett

Ewing, N. P. Family Farm Collection

Exhibit: Just Corn: The 'Amaizing' Story

Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Illinois Collection
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Funk, George Washington

Hartzold Family

Hilton and Schwoerer Farms

McFee, John

Moon Family

Runge

Satterfield Farm

See Family

Walker, Frank Albert

Edward Miller Farm
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Meadows Manufacturing Company

Portable Elevator

Tyner Farm Collection

4-H Federation / McLean County Fair Collection

Funk Bros Seed Company

Almanac

Barn Keepers

Benjamin Farm Collection

O’Hara, William J.

Draft Horses Collection

George Weldon Funk Collection

Grain Elevators

Gathman Collection

Dairies Collection

International Harvester Farming Equipment

Making a Home

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The Mississippians

Mississippian Artifacts and Pottery

Mississippian Tools

The Kickapoo

Oral Histories

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Jesus Villaneuva

Robert and Lillian Augusta Boykin

Publications

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Come And Get It: McDonaldization and the Disappearance of Local Food from a Central Illinois Community

Funk Farms, Birthplace of Commercial Hybrid Corn: A History of Hybrid Corn

Gifts to the Prairie: The Work of Pioneer Nurserymen and the Art of the Prestele Family

Phoenix's Plant Catalogue including Plant Novelties

The Heart of the Cornbelt: An Illustrated History of Corn Farming in McLean County

Speakers Bureau

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Buckle of the Corn Belt: An Illustrated Tour of McLean County and Everyone’s Favorite Grain

Pioneer Cattle and Hog Droving

Videos

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Buckle of the Corn Belt: An Illustrated Tour of McLean County & Everyone's Favorite Grain