Tiskilwa Historical Society

During a 2007 interview for the Tiskilwa Historical Society’s oral history project, Ellen Stevens Lawton mentioned that, when she was growing up in their family’s home on Main Street during the 1920s and ‘30s, train travelers often walked over to their house from the depot and asked to rent a room. They thought such a huge place must be a hotel. Scores of people have admired that elegant house for decades, and on Monday evening, October 10, Tiskilwa Historical Society invites

Come over to GALLERY ON GALENA on the first Saturday of the month, October 1, between 10:00 and 1:00. Before you enter, admire the Stauffer Country School bell, newly donated by the Fran & Dorothy Ary Family and then cleaned, painted & installed by Larry Magnuson and Ed Waca. Over the summer, we used the remainder of the GoG Building Fund to install a new sidewalk. And in the week before Pow Wow Days, Paul McCauley and Randy Senneff did an excellent job of powerwashing the s