This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Henry town's roots and the Illinois river mythic view
Marshall County's Henry area grows from early 1830s settlement along the Illinois River. The narrative recalls Hart and Stacy frontiersmen, Elias Thompson’s Henry House, and the emergence of Henry with school-section land sales, a prairie garden, and diverse immigrant families shaping a budding town amid 19th century real estate schemes and canal era commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Starved Rock
Joliet
Marquette
la Salle
Hennepin
Marshall County
Putnam County
Israel Putnam
Lacon
Columbia
Henry
Henry Township
James D. Henry
Chicago
Bluffa
Hart
Stacy
Hart’s
Webster
Elias Thompson
Earl of
Erastus Wright
William Porter
A L Dening
Elisha Swan
Springfield
Crow Meadow
Crow Creek
Maliarys
Culvers
Kellogg
Frisbey
Styles
Bowes
Blossoms
Wilsons
Hoyts
Snyder
Kidney
Pool
Hieta
Thompson
Edward Street
Rock Island
Noven
Rexhurat
Y. S. Glenn
Illinois and Michigan
John Rolley
W. H. Kellogg
Hall's Landinge
Mttes
Rolley
Bradford
Clayton Rolley
Swain Packet
Wid
Wrolley” Alters
Timer Printing Office
Wies
Dawson Gee Et