Civil War Widow
HISTORIC HOUSE WAS HOME TO CIVIL WAR WIDOW If only this house could speak. It’s a sentiment I often express when researching Monmouth’s historic homes. A house may hold architectural […]
Monmouth Physician Dynasty
MONMOUTH PHYSICIAN DYNASTY BEGAN IN 1837 “This is a pleasant location and bids fair to be a thriving town.” That was the observation of Levi H. Brown, when he visited […]
Maple City Soap
MAPLE CITY SOAP The success story of an early Procter & Gamble soap product begins with Monmouth College. For the first three and a half years of its existence, the […]
World War I – Cannon
A FORGOTTEN RELIC FROM A FORGOTTEN WAR World War I has often been called the forgotten war. Although the centennial of the first Armistice Day will be celebrated this November, […]
Prime Beef Festival
FESTIVAL PAYS HOMAGE TO DAYS WHEN BEEF WAS KING Most lifelong Warren County residents do not recall a Labor Day week that did not include the Prime Beef Festival. That’s […]
Luther Robinson
LUTHER E. ROBINSON If a statue were ever to be erected at Monmouth Park, it should rightfully honor Luther Emerson Robinson, who at the time of his death in 1945 […]
Warren County Home
WARREN COUNTY HOME “You’ll send me to the poorhouse!” is a complaint that parents have voiced to their children for ages, but it wasn’t so long ago that a future […]
Businessman in Mexico
EARLY MONMOUTH BUSINESSMAN ADVOCATED TRADE WITH MEXICO With Mexican trade and immigration dominating the headlines these days, it’s interesting to look back at how earlier generations viewed relations between the […]
Cutting Oats by Moonlight
1917 HEAT WAVE CAUSED FARMERS TO CUT OATS BY MOONLIGHT In western Illinois, August is a time when most farmers can take a breather from field work, but that was […]
Picnic Scandal – 1886
MONMOUTH’S PICNIC SCANDAL OF 1886 Legends are created through vocal tradition. A story is handed down from generation to generation, and by its nature is gradually altered or embellished, whether […]