Remembering Champaign County
By: Dannel McCollum
Series: American chronicles : a History Press series; American chronicles (Series)
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781596299634
Subjects: History; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Arrival of the European Americans; title: The pioneers; title: The first permanent settlers : Henry Sadorus and family; title: The Sadorus legacy; title: A long-lost mill site; title: Entrepreneur extraordinaire : Benjamin Franklin Harris; title: Early days in Champaign County; title: A new county; title: Locating the county seat; title: Early roads; title: Early towns; title: Living fences; title: The first hanging; title: Postscript; title: Connections with Old Abe; title: Kelley's Tavern; title: A murder trial; title: The 1858 Senate race; title: The last of Abe in Champaign County; title: Railroad stories; title: The Illinois Central; title: The human cost; title: Urbana and the depot; title: The great colonizer; title: Dillsburg on the little railroad that barely could; title: A train wreck; title: The industrial university; title: A personal reflection Higher education comes to the prairie; title: Rumors; title: The early academic buildings; title: Some memorable citizens; title: A funny man; title: Paul Lauterborn; title: Seichi "Bud" Konzo; title: We call it progress; title: Brief memories of Two Parks : Crystal Lake and Hessel; title: The Champaign downtown fountain; title: Commercial air service comes to Champaign County; title: The two should be one : merger issues; title: The end of apartheid in C-U; title: The mayor, the megalith and the activist; title: The megalith : a postscript; title: Evolution of a downtown; title: The Coke plant; title: The human side of place; title: Shakerag : timber rats and prairie dogs; title: The great shootout; title: The Busey house robbery; title: The Harris heist; title: 333 US 203 : a law case; title: Elm trees and beetles; title: Death of a newspaper; title: March madness : the final four.