Hours:
Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri.,
and the First Saturday
of each month
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Open other times by appointment.

Many contain biographical sketches. All have name indexes.

Bureau County

• Map of Bureau County, IL with Sketches of Its Early Settlement, by N. Matson (1867)
• Reminiscences of Bureau Co., N. Matson (1872)
• The Voters and Tax-Payers of Bureau Co., IL (1877)
• History of Bureau Co., H.C. Bradsby (1885)
• Biographical Record of Bureau, Marshall and Putnam Counties, S.J. Clark Publishing Co. (1896)
• Past and Present of Bureau Co., George B. Harrington (1906)
• Big Bureau and Bright Prairies, Doris Leonard (1968)

Individual Towns:

• Arlington, IL Sesquicentennial, 1853-2003 (2003)
• History of Boyd’s Grove (1951)
• Buda - Our Home Town, 1828-1975, Myrtle Foster Arnold (1975)
• History of Buda, IL, Marion Pederson (1932)
• The Way We Were - Bureau (town), IL, 1874-1974 (1974)
• Cherry Mine information
• History of DePue, IL (1976)
• Gems of Yesteryear - The History of Dover, IL, 1833-1967, Mildred Anderson (1968)
• Ladd, IL, 1890-1990, Centennial Committee (1990)
• LaMoille, IL Sesquicentennial, 1836-1987 (1987)
• History of the Settlement of Macon Township, 1837-1957, Ethel White Bitting
• Ties to Our Past - Manlius, IL, 1901-2002, Manlius Centennial Committee (2001)
• Neponset on the “Q”, Neponset Historical Society (1997)
• Neponset’s 100 Years, 1855-1955, Neponset Historical Society (1955)
• Ladies of Neponset, Neponset Historical Society (1988)
• Gentlemen of Neponset, Neponset Historical Society (2006)
• North Prairie Folks of Bureau Co., IL, Elizabeth C. Cass (1956)
• Ohio, IL Centennial Book, 1877-1977 (1977)
• A History of Princeton, George O. Smith (1966)
• Providence, IL information
• Spring Valley, IL, Centennial Book, 1886-1986 (1985)
• Tiskilwa History, (ca 1976)
• Walnut Area Centennial Book, 1872-1972 (1972)
• Our Town, A History of Wyanet, 1828-1973, Maxine Trotter (1973)
• Town histories with biographical sketches from the Bureau County Republican (1903-1908) for Buda, Bureau, DePue, Kasbeer, LaMoille, Malden, Manlius, Neponset, New Bedford, Ohio, Princeton, Seatonville, Sheffield, Spring Valley, Tiskilwa, Walnut, Wyanet, Yorktown