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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Unknown class reunion 5

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  • mbnegri said:
    Class of 1979

Bubeck and Gallagher sale

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  • Theresa Gilbert said:
    1948

Courthouse fire interior

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  • Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL) said:
    Burned Courthouse shell – A fire in the courthouse was discovered at 3:00 a.m. on December 31, 1902, by Officer Howard Handley and Mr. Allison, a night clerk at the Marshall House. They believed it must have been smoldering for several hours. The main theory about the source of the fire was that a meeting had been held in a room on the second floor the evening before, and it was believed that a cigarette or stub might have been mislaid. The roof and the floor and contents of the second story were completely destroyed, but the record books and most of the contents of the first floor were carried out of the building by volunteers and taken to several other buildings for safety.
    Following the fire office space was rented in the Pythian Theater building and the Clark County Bank until a new courthouse could be built. This picture shows the remaining shell of the 1888 courthouse looking from south to north. The house in the background on the left is now the site of a laundromat and the building on the right was Grabenheimer’s (recently Tatum's).

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