“Just Like Granma’s House” | Exploring rural Jackson County, Illinois
Lindsay + Tim Stockhecke www.deliciouslyordinary.com “It smells just like Grandma’s house!” our eight-year-old proclaims as we enter Ava Food and Family. We opted to spend a slow day exploring the western side of Jackson County on a toasty summer afternoon, keeping our agenda open-ended to allow for unexpected roadside delights. Southern Illinois is the perfect […]
About in the Bottoms | Grand Tower, Illinois
Lindsay Stockhecke | Deliciously Ordinary www.deliciouslyordinary.com With the earliest settlers being river pirates and legends of hauntings, you can feel the history of Grand Tower as you pull into town. As Devil’s Backbone (a half-mile strip of limestone that spans the eastern shore of the Mississippi River) stands behind you and the 100-foot-tall Tower Rock […]
Women’s Voices 3:Make/Believe – A stunning display of local art
Women’s Voices 3:Make/Believe features local artists hos at General John A Logan Museum in Murphysboro, Illinois.
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Woodlawn Cemetery Memorial Day Celebration
The marker is in Carbondale on the southwest corner of Woodlawn Cemetery, which is on the south side of Main Street (IL 13), two blocks east of the railroad tracks. Jackson County On April 29, 1866, over 200 veterans and several thousand citizens gathered at Woodlawn Cemetery to honor those who had died in the […]
The S.S. General Lyon Disaster
The marker is located on the grounds of the Gen. John A. Logan Museum, 1603 Edith Street, Murphysboro, IL. Jackson County Their term of service being up in February 1865, 205 members of the 56th Illinois Infantry chose to muster out. Before doing so they fought at Bentonville, North Carolina, the regiment’s final engagement. Their […]
Major General John A. Logan
The marker is located on the grounds of the Gen. John A. Logan Museum, 1613 Edith Street, Murphysboro. Jackson County John A. Logan was born here in 1826. He fought in the Battle of Bull Run as a Democratic Congressman. Logan joined the Union Army and before the Civil War’s end he earned the rank […]
Logan Day 1914
The marker is located on the northwest corner of the Jackson County Court House lawn, 1001 Walnut Street, Murphysboro, Il. Jackson County Murphysboro celebrated its first Logan Day on August 3rd, 1914. This was Illinois’ second Logan Day. The first occurred in Chicago in 1897. Logan Day brought 25,000 people to Murphysboro. Among the attendees […]
Jackson County, Illinois
This marker is located on the courthouse lawn, 1001 Walnut Street, Murphysboro, IL. On January 10, 1816, Jackson County, created from Randolph and Johnson counties became Illinois’ ninth county. It was named for General (later president) Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans. The county’s first seat, Brownsville, was established on land […]
Israel Blanchard
The marker is located on the side of the building at 1101 Walnut Street, Murphysboro, IL. In August 1862, federal authorities detained Israel Blanchard, John A. Logan’s brother-in-law, as he walked near the courthouse. Blanchard was subsequently taken to the Logan Hotel and arrested on vague charges related to alleged anti-war activities. This was […]
