Sangamon County’s humble beginnings seem so distant as we approach the bicentennial of the founding of the county on Jan. 30, 1821. Our founders owed their survival largely to the fertile soils created by glaciation, primarily during the Illinoian Period of 191,000 to 130,000 years ago. Native Americans introduced early settlers to corn and several […]
David Brady
David Brady is an avid researcher and historian from Springfield. He is the author of a centennial history of Divernon and a bookseller at Prairie Archives.
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Hero or hellion?
Some heroes have great talent. Others do great deeds and overcome enormous odds. Robert Pulliam was such a man, but what he is remembered for most is that he was the first Anglo settler of Sangamon County. The early city fathers admired Pulliam so much that they erected a marker near the site of his […]
