Chicago, Illinois

History, Historic House

Pontiac, Illinois

Historic House

Jerseyville, Illinois

Archaeology, Church, Culture, History, Historic House, Historical Society, Library, Military, Park

Our three-acre site of the Jersey County Historical Society includes the historic Cheney Mansion, Lone Star School, McAdams Log Cabin and Union Forest Church and our genealogy research center.

DeKalb, Illinois

Botanical Garden, Culture, General, History, Historic House

Tour the site where Joseph Glidden invented and first manufactured the most widely used type of barbed wire. View demonstrations of the blacksmith craft in the Phineas Vaughan Blacksmith Shop. Both the 1861 home and brick barn are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.