Family History Walk 2024

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When

Sep 14, 2024
–10:00am

Where

The Nickel Plate Station
600 Troy Rd
Edwardsville, IL 62025

Cost

Free

This event is presented by Illinois Humanities grantee partner Madison COunty Historical Society.

The Madison County Historical Society invites you to take a guided stroll through Edwardsville’s Leclaire National Historic District. 

Along the way, you will meet Leclaire founder, N. O. Nelson, as well as his daughter, Julia Lawnin, bathtub maker Fred Merkle, schoolteacher Mildred Shaw, housewife Emma Sehnert, cabinetmaker Charles Vollentine, and junk dealer Frank Mack. All will share stories of their lives in Leclair during the 1920s.

The tour begins promptly at 10:00 a.m. and the walk takes approximately two hours to complete. For more information, contact the Madison County Historical Society at 618-656-1294, or visit madcohistory.org/family-history-walk-2.

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