Joshua C. Morgan

The first 19 years of Pekin’s history cover the period when our community was...

As we continue our Bicentennial series on Pekin’s history, this week we will revisit...

In previous installments of our ongoing Pekin Bicentennial series, we have recalled the earliest...

Before the formal platting and surveying of the little pioneer settlement that would be...

In the summer of 1834, the small pioneer community of Pekin – just four...

One of the most prominent of Pekin’s community leaders in the earliest years of...

This is a revised version of one of our “From the Local History Room”...

By Jared Olar Library assistant For the first 19 years of its existence, from...

Here’s a chance to read again one of our old Local History Room columns,...