New Book Chronicles Carlinville’s Past

Oct. 30, 2013 - PRLog -- The newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series is Carlinvillefrom local author Louise M. Jett. The book boasts more than 200 vintage and modern images chronicling the growth and change of this Illinois city.

Readers are invited to travel back in time and explore Carlinville through more than 200 images from the Macoupin County Historical Society and Carlinville Public Library archives. From the Million Dollar Courthouse to the City Free School, this collection of photographs brings local history home for the approximately 6,000 people who live in the city.

Carlinville’s past includes tales of Abraham Lincoln, who once represented clients at the Macoupin County Courthouse, and W.B. Otwell, who brought thousands here with his Farmer Boys Round Ups and colorful iris fields. Just as Carlinville is the seat of Macoupin County, the Carlinville Square is the heart of Carlinville. An entire chapter, which includes photographs from a fire that devastated the west side of the square in 1941, is devoted to this city’s epicenter. Additional chapters feature the MCHS Museum and prominent businesses, places and people of the area.

Chapters included in Carlinville are:

•The One and Only Carlinville
•Million-Dollar Courthouse
•Macoupin County Jubilee
•Courthouse Centennial Celebration
•The Heart of Carlinville
•MCHS Museum
•Other Prominent Places
•Carlinville Business
•Farming around Carlinville
•Everyday People

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

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