History Stories
- Schools
- Fairbury Area Country Schools
- Typical Design of Fairbury area Country Schools
- Fairbury School History
- Illinois State Boy's Reformatory at Pontiac
- Edison School Meteorite Mystery
- Fairbury-Cropsey School Consolidation
- Prairie Central School Consolidation
- How Fairbury-Cropsey got the nickname of Tartars
- Native American or Indigenous People Related Stories
- The History of the Kickapoo
- Interesting Ways History was Preserved. Includes Kickapoo information from the 1830s.
- Early Settlers and the Black Hawk War
- First Fairbury area family arrived 190 years ago.
- First three years very challenging to early settlers. Includes interactions with the Kickapoo.
- Application to add the Strevell House in Pontiac, Illinois, to the National Register of Historic Places. Includes section on Native American history in Livingston County.
- Fairbury's Connection to the Florida Seminole Wars. Part of the west side of Fairbury was originally owned by members of the Creek tribe from Florida.
- Businesses
- Fairbury & Sibley Related Stories
- Churches
- Church #1
- Coal Mining
- African American Related Stories
- Fairbury's African American History 1857-1922
- Fairbury's African American History 1923-2021
- Interesting Civil War Veteran John Posey
- Tales from Graceland Cemetery
- Two Fairbury Citizens Reaching 117 Years of Age Created National News
- Underground Railroad in Livingston County by Dale C. Maley
- Comets of Conscious: Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Leaders of the Underground Railroad in Central Illinois. Unpublished manuscript by J. William Goold, Fairbury Native.
- Events
- Fairbury Fair 1876 Poem
- Fairbury's first 150 Years
- History Talker's 2017
- Cropsey Related Stories
- Colorful Founder of Cropsey [A. J. Cropsey]
- The Origins of the Brucker Family in Cropsey
- President Reagan Courted Cropsey School Teacher
- Cropsey Farmer Manages Technological Change [Christian Samuel Gerber]
- Cropsey Played an Important Role in the World War II Effort
- Cropsey Native Was Rhodes Scholar and World-Class Historian [Gene A. Brucker]
- Fairbury's First Consolidation with Cropsey
- Exhibits
- Museum Miscellany Exhibit
- New Exhibit: To All a Good Night
- Pre-1900 Fairbury Exhibit ends soon
- Winter Wonderland Exhibit
- Honegger's
- Hospital
- Organizations
- People
- Doctor Dan Brewer
- Fairbury Photographer Dudley Fultz
- Fairbury Photographer Family De Long.
- Fairbury Photographer E. M. Phillips
- Fairbury Photographer W. E. Hummel
- Fairbury Photographer Walter Ferguson
- Fairbury Photographer A. J. Swap
- Fairbury Photographer Watt Nakamaru
- Fairbury's Casualties During World War II
- Francis Spangler Koltze - a pictorial of Her life - Part 1
- Francis Spangler Koltze - a pictorial of Her life - Part 2
- Francis Spangler Koltze - a pictorial of Her life - Part 3
- Francis Spangler Koltze - a pictorial of Her life - Part 4
- November's Picture of the Month
- Octave Chanute
- Stephen Young
- Dr. Pendergast. He collected Native American artifacts and was a nationally known expert on Cigar Store Indians.
- Places (Buildings & Landmarks)
- Mausoleum Centennial
- North Side School
- President Grant Slept Here
- What Happened to the Deer on Route 24?
- Railroad
- 1979 Train Derailment
- Other History
- Future Items