“Washington County should have a historical society,” Harvey S. Bomberger declared on July 28, 1911. Bomberger, 51, was a merchant from Boonsboro. He stood in the reading room of the Washington County ...

Illinois State Historical Society is honoring the 206th anniversary of Illinois gaining statehood with its Statehood Day Commemoration on Dec. 3. The commemoration will take place at Inn at 835 in ...

Vendors of antiques, crafts, art and other merchandise will help make one Sunday super this summer for the Greater Washington Area Historical Society. The Greater Washington Area Historical Society is ...

Jim Lammers, the author of “Barns of the St. Croix Valley: An Architect’s Sketchbook,” will be the featured speaker at the Washington County Historical Society’s fall membership dinner meeting on Sept ...