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Joseph Roach

Who was Joseph Roach?

The Feb. 2005 issue of the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society’s Monthly, pages...

Distillery workers, domestics, and war heroes: Pekin’s blacks in the Gilded Age

By Jared Olar Library assistant Last week in this column, we surveyed the African-American...

Traces of a past nearly forgotten

By Jared Olar Library assistant Recently local historian Carl Adams brought to my attention...

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