Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL)

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Marshall Public Library was founded in 1916 and has a proud history of serving our community. We are honored to be the go-to place for resources for the history of our community including a robust genealogy collection, thousands of historic photographs, and a one-of-a-kind oral history collection. Many of our collections can be found on the Illinois Digital Archive at idaillinois.org This collection is a work in progress. Photo titles, details, and dates will be updated as staff time allows. If you have any questions, please email Head Librarian Jamie Poorman at jpoorman@marshallplib.com

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Class of 1983 Reunion

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  • mbnegri said:
    Class of 1983
  • Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL) said:
    mbnegri Thank you!

MR 10.57 Hogue Farm

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  • Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL) said:
    Notes from Brian Murphy:
    The house was originally built by Nineveh Shaw. The farm was later purchased by James C Bryan, my Great Great Grandfather. He was the first hardware store owner in Marshall. Dad and Uncle George Kile had the house torn down, they found it had walnut floor joists and poplar flooring. I have the original order for the lumber that came from Walnut Prairie. It was purchased from William B Archer. That farm had a loom shed on it where farmers brought flax to make linen material. I have a throw that was made there. The farm is now the Westwood Subdivision.

Marshall Memories, Volume 2 by Joann Strange (33)

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  • Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL) said:
    This photo, from an album donated by Joann Brosman Strange, shows the Stone Arch Bridge on West Archer in1985.
    The bridge was constructed in 1837 along the National Road under the supervision of Alexander McGregor. No mortar was used in the construction, and this is one of the last stone arch bridges from that road still in use.
    From the "Tour of Historic Marshall, Illinois" booklet - "Archer Avenue is part of the original Cumberland Road, later known as National Road. The road was commissioned in 1806 to go from Cumberland, Maryland to the Mississippi River. The completion of the road through Clark County in the early 1930s drew many settlers to the area and was a contributing factor in the move of the Clark County seat from Darwin to Marshall in 1838. The road was paved with bricks in the 1920s and in 1926 it became a part of US Hwy 40 which stretched from coast to coast."

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