Hunting and Foraging

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Articles

Pages from our Past articles written by Bill Kemp

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illustration of a light skinned man with short wavy light colored hair and a long, thick mustache. A rifle is pictured along the bottom of the image along with the words

Adam Bogardus, world champion wing shot

In the fall of 1875, at a shooting tournament in Bloomington, champion marksman Adam H. Bogardu...

Article

Moraine View park opened in 1959

There are few lovelier corners of McLean County than Moraine View State Recreation Area. Situat...

Article

Biographies

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Cheney, Owen Lee

Owen Lee Cheney (1846-1911) was a quixotic man in his quest for fame, fortune, and new experien...

Biography

Hendryx, Jane Frankeberger

Jane Frankeberger was born in Champaign County, Ohio on September 4, 1818 to Jesse and his seco...

Biography

Making a Home

Digital Exhibit

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Frontier Settlement

John L. Hendryx and John W. Dawson arrived in 1822. They were the first to stake claims for fed...

Digital Exhibit

Mississippian Artifacts and Pottery

The artifacts displayed here were excavated from the only known Mississippian village in McLean...

Digital Exhibit

Mississippian Tools

Mississippians were very resourceful, transforming stone, wood, and bone into a variety of tool...

Digital Exhibit

The Kickapoo

Seven hundred years ago the Mississippian culture faded. The descendants of the Mississippians ...

Digital Exhibit

The Mississippians

The Mississippian Tradition was one characterized by mound building, fortified towns, heavy re...

Digital Exhibit

The Orendorffs

McLean County was a wilderness when the first white settlers arrived. They left behind over far...

Digital Exhibit