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History Show-and-Tell with Richard Stuenkel
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Loren Buchmeier of Crozehead Cooperage Presents Historic Barrel-Making
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Joe Craig and Aimée Carbaugh: What They Found on Cemetery Hill
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Chuck Youdris on Civil War-Era Firearms
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Dr. Mark Zumhagen: A Visit from Abraham Lincoln
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Rev. Betsy Youdris: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of Quilts & the Underground Railroad

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Recently, board member Rachel White got an email from a man named Andy Gappa. Andy wrote he had recently visited Antiques on Main, an antique store in Crown Point, Indiana…

The Wehrli Family in Monee

In our last blog post, we mentioned the photo of Waldemar Wehrli that was kindly sent to the Monee Historical Society by Andy Gappa. We will focus on the Wehrli…

Our Roots are Deep

Our Roots are Deep was published in 1974 by Muriel Mueller Milne. It remains today the most thorough and comprehensive history of the Village of Monee and its people in…

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