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October 2025 Newsletter ChurchesNewsletterParks & LandmarksProminent People

October 2025 Newsletter

Future Underground Railroad documentary showings and 800 pages of St. Mary's of Lourdes unpublished history...…
Jack Weddle
Jack Weddle
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April 2025 Newsletter

The History Of The Underground Railroad In Metamora premieres on June 22 at MTHS, history…
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Jack Weddle
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August 2024 Newsletter

Early Metamora lawyers, featuring Adlai E. Stevenson I. Tribute to Lincoln from August 1923. Brutal…
Jack Weddle
Jack Weddle
Present Church built in 1981
History of the Metamora Christian Union Church Churches

History of the Metamora Christian Union Church

On September 20, 1981, a new church was dedicated on donated land on W. Walnut…
Shirley Adams
Shirley Adams
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Today St. Mary's of Lourdes is one of the oldest churches in Woodford County. A…
Shirley Adams
Shirley Adams
1952 - South expansion
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St. Mary’s Catholic Grade School

St. Mary’s is the only Catholic school in Woodford County.
Shirley Adams
Shirley Adams
Post-1908 Construction
St. Mary’s Orphanage Churches

St. Mary’s Orphanage

Read articles from several editions of the Metamora Herald related to the St. Mary's Orphanage.
Shirley Adams
Shirley Adams
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April 2021 Newsletter

Abersol/Isch's store photos, including before the house was moved west.
Jack Weddle
Jack Weddle
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October 2020 Newsletter ChurchesNewsletter

October 2020 Newsletter

The Metamoran, a new 2020 history book by Ron Wagner; St. Mary of Lourdes Church…
Jack Weddle
Jack Weddle
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June 2018 Newsletter

Metamora Boys Off to World War I (100 years ago this month); commentary about the…
Jack Weddle
Jack Weddle
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