Students and staff of the Ambidexter Institute, which operated at the Taylor House, 902 S. 12th St., from 1901 to 1908. PHOTO COURTESY SANGAMON VALLEY COLLECTION AT LINCOLN LIBRARY The 150-year-old Taylor House at 12th and Cass streets in Springfield now faces possible demolition after numerous attempts to save it. New efforts to preserve the […]
Curtis Mann
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Pulliam’s pit
A recent archaeological dig in west central Illinois has revealed a bit of early Sangamon County history. Robert Pulliam, believed to be our area’s first settler, was remembered as a rough-and-rowdy pioneer who led a band of three men and one woman into present-day Sangamon County in the fall of 1817. They grazed cattle, hunted, […]
