P-51D Aircraft (National Register)
Dr. George T. Palmer (public health expert)
Palmer Tuberculosis Sanitarium
The Pasfield House (Springfield historic site)
Pasfield Family (1830s to 1930)
Patrick Henry statue, St. Joseph School
Paving crew, early 1900s (photo)
Pawnee posse captures burglars, 1899
The Payne Stone Age Collection
Emmet Pearson (First Citizen)
Fredrick Pefferle killing, 1973
J.C. Penney store, Springfield
Earl Baker Perce (Antarctic explorer)
Mark Peterman (basketball coach)
David L. Phillips (National Lincoln Monument Association)
John Picco (gangland murders)
Piggly Wiggly/Eisner grocery stores
Pillsbury ‘Doughboy’ origin debate
Charles E. Planck (killer of Lincoln family dog)
Planes flown by Illinois National Guard, Springfield
Pleasant Plains High class of 1924: ‘How We Come to School’
Poisoning and racial controversy, 1860
Police alert lights (1912-36)
Police officers killed in the line of duty
Polio vaccinations, 1955 and 1964
The political rise of the Adamitis and Yacubasky families (Lithuanians in Springfield)
“Poor House Rules” — the drawings of Alfred S. Harkness
C.W. Post (cereal entrepreneur)
Carrie Post King’s Daughters Home for Women
John Carroll Power (historian, Lincoln Tomb custodian)
John Carroll Power on the founding of Springfield
J. Frank Prather (shorthorn cattle breeder)
Price-Prather House, Williamsville (National Register)
‘Praying Hands’ sculpture, formerly at First Street and North Grand Avenue
Progressive Mine Workers Auxiliary march, 1933 (mine union war)
Prohibition referendums in Sangamon County, 1908-17
Prohibition violence in Sangamon County
Richard Pryor (comedian)
Robert Pulliam: First settler?
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‘Rachel,’ the Springfield High School Ghost
Racine-Sattley Manufacturing Co.
Radio beginnings in Springfield
Radio brings the 1929 World Series to Springfield (photo)
Mattie S. Rayburn Memorial, Oak Ridge Cemetery
Abraham Raymer (Springfield race riot)
“Patty Reed’s doll” (Donner Party artifact)
Refrigerator delivery, ca. 1930 (photo)
George Reisch discusses prohibition
Harriett Reid, women’s rights activist
Adelaide O’Brien Rentschler (aviator)
Nellie Revell (publicist, author & celebrity)
Revolutionary War veterans buried in Sangamon County
Meredith Rhule (World War II hero)
Frank P. Richards, wood carving artist
George Richardson (Springfield race riot)
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1933
Carl Rinnus (popular sculpture)
Robbery of Rochester State Bank, 1930
Octavia Roberts Corneau (writer)
Lora Hieronymus Robie (educator, book lover)
Robin Roberts (Baseball Hall of Fame)
Henson Robinson Co./Henson Robinson Zoo
W.H. Roland women’s clothing
Noah Roll (slain police officer)
Sgt. James Rollman (WWI flu hero)
Clarence Root (weather forecaster)
Julius Rosenwald (philanthropist)
Route 66 in Sangamon County
Robert Rudolph (brewmaster, showman)
Rural mail delivery begins, 1896
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Sacred Heart Academy (closed high schools)
Salisbury High School (closed high schools)
Salvation Army band arrested, 1887
Sangamo Electric meter chronology
Sangamo/Schlumberger Watthour Meter Serial Log
“Sangamon”: Origin of the name
Sangamon College, Pleasant Plains
The Sangamon Country, 1819 (Ferdinand Ernst)
The Sangamon Country, 1832 (William Cullen Bryant)
Sangamon County, 1837 (H.E. Ellsworth)
Sangamon County and Springfield, 1837 (Peck’s Gazetteer)
Sangamon County and Springfield, 1847 (J.H. Buckingham)
Sangamon County centennial marker dedication, 1921 (photo)
Sangamon County circuit clerks
Sangamon County Detention Home, 1916
Sangamon County historic landmarks
Sangamon County Historical Society
Sangamon County Historical Society publications
Sangamon County Jail conditions, 1847 (Dorothea Dix)
Sangamon County Jail, 1914 (Springfield Survey photo)
Sangamon County place name origins
Sangamon County Poor Farm, 1914 (Springfield Survey photo)
‘Poor House Rules’ — the drawings of Alfred S. Harkness
Sangamon County/Springfield timeline, 1818-40
Sangamon Fair and Springfield Exposition, 1890
Sangamon Stage (geological period)
Nicholas Schlangen (brewer)
Mary Lou Schneider (Smokey’s Den)
John Schnepp (mayor & embezzler)
School problems, 1914 (Springfield Survey photo)
John Schroeder (auto dealer)
Second Christmas parade (1929)
‘Segregated district,’ 1909-16
Clarence Senor (African-American history interviews)
Peggy Senor (African-American history interviews)
Shaheen’s Springfield Speedway
Asa Shaw (1828 pioneers)
Mack, Frank and Mary ‘Polly’ Shelby (1828 pioneers)
Mary and John Sherill (1828 pioneers)
Sheriffs, 1821-2015 (list)
Frank Sherry (hammer assaults)
Shot-firers, ‘windy shots’ and coal mine safety
Leander Shoup (Lake Springfield holdout)
Tom Shrewsbury (Springfield Muni Opera)
Hiram Shumate (last Civil War veteran)
Slot machine hijacker reforms (Springfield Lithuanians)
Hettie Bunker Smith (prosthetics artist)
J. Emil Smith (newspaperman, mayor)
Marguerite Beechler Soma, teacher
Southern Illinois University Medical School 50th anniversary
Southern Illinois University Medical School unsung heroes (Sr. Jane Like, Carol Bressan)
Charles H. Spaulding (water purification innovator)
Willis J. Spaulding (Springfield utilities commissioner)
Spring Creek Covered Bridge fire, 1977
Rev. Francis Springer (Lutheran leader)
1850s Springfield, in four mysterious paintings
Springfield Automobile Club ‘safety lanes’
Springfield Brewery (1840-1860s)
Springfield Brewing Co. (1933-1940s)
Springfield Ceramics and Crafts Club
Springfield city charter election, 1840
Springfield city plan, 1925 (‘The West Plan’)
Springfield College in Illinois
Springfield Fire Department, 1925 (photo)
Springfield Giants (Class D baseball)
Springfield Glove Co., 1912 (photo)
Springfield High School explosions, 1932
Springfield High School graduating class, 1914 (brochure)
Springfield High loses 1933 basketball championship (YouTube)
Springfield High School sketches, 1930 (Alda Raulin)
Springfield Hospital and Training School
Springfield Improvement League
Springfield in 1828 (map)
Springfield in 1867 (map)
Springfield in 1912 (‘General Facts,’ Springfield Commercial Association)
Springfield in 1916 (map)
Springfield in 1939 (Federal Writers Project)
Springfield in 1947 (Saturday Evening Post)
Springfield Library Association
‘Springfield Magical’ (Vachel Lindsay)
Springfield manufacturers and professions, 1869
Springfield postal service/postmasters
Springfield public high schools timeline
Springfield Sallies (women’s professional baseball)
Springfield School District desegregation order (1976)
Springfield school superintendents (list)
Springfield street car service
Springfield street name changes
Springfield square, 1859 (photos)
Springfield traffic rules, 1903
Springfield wins minor-league baseball game, 33-23 (1926)
St. Patrick Parish, Springfield
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Mission
St. Barbara Slovenian Catholic Church
St. Joseph Church construction, 1960s (video)
St. Nicholas Hotel (early days)
St. Patrick Parish, Springfield
St. Vincent de Paul Church (Springfield Lithuanians)
Stasukinas family (Alby’s tavern)
Dr. Dominic Sterbini (vice consul)
The Sternaman brothers (football pioneers)
Benjamin Stephenson (Grand Army of the Republic)
Adlai Stevenson II in Springfield
Philemon Stout’s big party, 1898
Streetcar ‘war’ of 1890
John Todd Stuart’s memoir of early Springfield
Dick Sullivan, political ‘boss’
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Walter Tabor (Maldaner’s restaurant)
Talisman steamboat
Gov. John Tanner marriage, 1896
Gov. John Tanner monument, Oak Ridge Cemetery
Tapeworms and medical fraud, 1884
Dominic Tarro (gangland murders)
Edmund D. Taylor, (not the) ‘father of the greenback’
Harry Taylor (first black firefighter, police detective)
Col. John Taylor (1828 pioneers)
Judge John Wickliffe Taylor House
Dual telephone service in Springfield, 1903-19
Telephone service in Springfield, 1939-84
Harry Thornton, theater manager
Julian Tilton (Lincoln Home)
Dr. John Todd (1828 pioneers, ‘People Lincoln knew’)
William Todd (Bear Flag Rebellion)
Toddler food poisoning deaths, 1927
Totem pole (Illinois State Museum)
‘Tournament of the Big Snow,’ 1937
The Town House
Frank Tracy (banker)
Samuel H. Treat (National Lincoln Monument Association)
Tri-City boys basketball, 1952-53
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Trip to Springfield, 1852 (letter)
Twelve Mile House (highway landmark)
Two Mile House (inn, almshouse site)
Sharon Tyndale murder mystery, 1871
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Under the Gas-Light: Or Lights and Shadows in the State Capital of Illinois (1879)
Unions in state government (1973)
Unit W (World War I)
U.S. Senators with Sangamon County ties
Ursuline Academy (closed high schools)
Utopian Socialism in Sangamon County
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Martin Van Buren meets Abraham Lincoln
Nathaniel Van Noy (hung)
Mariah Vance (Lincoln family housekeeper)
Carl Vandagrift (baseball player-manager)
Ben Victor (philanthropist, Thrifty Drugs chairman)
Victory Loan Flying Circus, 1919
Virden coal conflict (1898)
George Voyzey (union radical)
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Wabash Railroad Employees Hospital
Reed “Kid” Waddell, international con man
‘Waiting for Maud’, Oak Hill Cemetery
Thornton Walker (aviation writer)
William Walling (Springfield race riot)
Hooper Warren (1828 pioneers)
Carmelita Hogan Washington (African-American history interviews)
Washington Park Children’s Corner, 1914 (Springfield Survey photo)
William Washington (African-American history interviews)
Vincent T. Wasilewski (National Association of Broadcasters)
W.W. Watts, theater impresario
Weather reports by radio begin (Illiopolis, 1915)
Jessie Palmer Weber (state librarian)
‘The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotus‘ (Vachel Lindsay)
Wedding customs before the Civil War
‘Well and privy menace,‘ 1914 (Springfield Survey photo)
Gustav Wendlandt (Lincoln Home)
West Side Capitol Neighborhood (Fever River Research)
Western Cartridge Co. explosion, 1920
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Wheeland Haven, Riverton
Whig Party rally, 1840 (letter)
Edna White (heroic elevator operator)
White Oaks Mall’s opening day lineup, 1977
The Who at the Illinois State Fair, 1968
Noble Bates Wiggins (hotelier)
‘Wigwam tree’ and sulfur spring, Loami
Susan Wilcox (educator)
Wil-Hold Hair Setting Bob Pins
A. Morris Williams (lawyer, developer)
Dennis Williams, crayon artist
John Williams (1828 pioneers)
Police Officer Porter Williams, 1916 (photo)
Williamsville United Methodist Church
Arthur ‘Jingle’ Wilson (Medal of Honor, 1909)
Bluford Wilson (lawyer, corruption fighter)
Columbus ‘Pigeon’ Wilson (Sangamon County Poor Farm)
Windstorm damages Solomon Coal Mine, Auburn (1911)
L. Winston Associates trade school
WMAY Shower of Stars (1959)
Women’s bathing suit controversy, 1916
Women win civil service hiring rights, 1920
Women’s vote history, Sangamon County
Sarah Smith Woodruff, first woman bicyclist
Suicide of Secretary of State Harry Woods, 1914
Rebecca Woods (servant)
World War I Homecoming Celebration
World War I memorial (new)
World War I memorial, First Street and North Grand Avenue (updated)
Worst coal mine accident (1918)
Amos Worthen (Illinois State Museum)
Erastus Wright (abolitionist)
Gertrude Wright (first black high school graduate)
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Isidor Yacktis (lawyer, spokesman for Lithuanians)
William Yates Sr. (Republican leader)
Young men at cards, 1840s (photo)
Joe Yucas (‘King of the Lithuanians’)
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Zion Missionary Baptist Church
FBI bugs Frank Zito hangout, 1965
Wondered about the documentary of St. Joseph Church on 6th Street done by Mike Kienzler.
Was noted in church bulletin this week to go to site and view. New church built 1974?
Several of us recently thinking of old church as picture of it in back of Church. Fr. Ed Gorman instrumental.
Ms. Vollmer: As the entry notes, the first service in the new church was on Thanksgiving Day, 1967. The entry is in this index, under “St. Joseph Church construction (1960s).” But here’s the direct link: https://sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/?s=St.+Joseph