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Tornado Book
This book will take you on an emotional journey as survivors share their personal recollections of the tornado that hit Belvidere on April 21, 1967. Released as a part of the 40th Anniversary, Mike Doyle, with the assistance of his committee, put together a book filled with personal stories, newspaper accounts, and pictures that takes us through the devastation, remembers those who lost their lives, and shows us how a small community rallied together to rebuild.
* This is a Limited Edition and is only availabe through the Boone County Historical Museum
$30.00
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My Dear Wife
My Dear Wife
Transcribed and edited by: Franklin R. Crawford
My Dear Wife is compiled from Civil War Letters written by Private Samuel Pepper to his wife. Private Pepper served in Company G-95th Illinois Infantry from 1862-1865
$20.00
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95th Regiment
A History of the 95th Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers
by: Wales Wood
Bessie Sullivan wanted to see the 95th Illinois Infantry reprinted, Sadly, Miss Sullivan did not get to see the fulfillment of this project. In 1992, the Boone County Historical Society took Bessie's dream and turned it into reality. This edition adds to the original with an index as well as all available photographs of the men in the 95th.
$24.95
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Boone County 2000
Boone County 2000
Boone County 2000 was written for the purpose of recording some of the events and people who have colored the developments of our community. This is a perfect addition to Boone County Then and Now as it ads the events that took place after the Bicentennial.
$15.00
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Boone County County Schools
Country Schools in Boone County, Illinois
Compiled by: William A Schriver & Pauline Johnson
Country Schools in Boone County, Illinois contains information on the history, location, and adaptive reuses of our country schools.
$30.00
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Arts & Times of Professor William Stanley
Professor William Stanley
The Arts & Times of Professor Wm Stanley
and the families whose lives he touched
by Beth Herbert Luhman
Professor Stanley, an itinerant artist, or limner, travels East in the spring to spend summer and fall living with farm families and exchanging room and board for factual pictures of their farmsteads that he would draw "with a common lead pencil." Follow Beth as she takes you on Professor Stanley's journey and read stories from familes who tell of their lives on the farm and their memories of this remarkable artist.
$20.00
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