Project aims to preserve history in Grundy County

GRUNDY COUNTY – Local historian Lois Stork is heading a project that seeks to preserve local history by identifying and marking historical landmarks throughout the county, and she is looking to the public for help with this.
What Stork hopes to do is locate historical landmarks, or even sites where historical structures once stood, and install a sign marking the historical site as well as an interpretive learning center that gives information about the landmark.What constitutes a historical landmark is pretty open, Stork said, adding that it could be an old one room schoolhouse, a creamery, post office, church, or prairie area; anything that could help people identify with early Grundy County history.
“It can really be anything that people feel an attachment to; it’s sort of an emotional thing,” she said.
But in order to find these landmarks, she needs the public’s help.
Stork said if anyone knows of a historical structure or site from early Grundy County history, they should contact her, and she will work on creating a sign and interpretive center to tell the history of the site.
“They really are all around us, in our own backyards” Stork said of historical sites in Grundy County. “The thing is just finding them.”
For the full story, see the September 1 edition of The Grundy Register.