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    • HOME
    • WHO WE ARE
      • About Us
      • Board Members
      • Membership
      • Join
      • Donations
      • Contact Us
    • BENEFITS
      • Meetings
      • Newsletter
      • Collectibles
    • EXPLORE LOCKPORT
      • Photo Stories
      • Lockport Gallery
      • Professional Links
    • HISTORICAL PHOTOS
      • D. Woebbeking Worst WWII
      • Boys Baseball Teams
      • Kelvin Grove School
      • Lkpt Central Grade School
      • Lkpt Township HS Photos
      • LTHS Music Man Band
      • St. Joseph School Photos
    • HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS
      • Lithuanian Families
    • MEMBERS ONLY
      • Renew Membership
      • Current Newsletters
    • ADMIN ONLY

  • HOME
  • WHO WE ARE
    • About Us
    • Board Members
    • Membership
    • Join
    • Donations
    • Contact Us
  • BENEFITS
    • Meetings
    • Newsletter
    • Collectibles
  • EXPLORE LOCKPORT
    • Photo Stories
    • Lockport Gallery
    • Professional Links
  • HISTORICAL PHOTOS
    • D. Woebbeking Worst WWII
    • Boys Baseball Teams
    • Kelvin Grove School
    • Lkpt Central Grade School
    • Lkpt Township HS Photos
    • LTHS Music Man Band
    • St. Joseph School Photos
  • HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS
    • Lithuanian Families
  • MEMBERS ONLY
    • Renew Membership
    • Current Newsletters
  • ADMIN ONLY

laghs newsletter

publication

The newsletter is published and mailed to members at least 10 months out of the year.  There is also an Annual Report published once a year.

back issues

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      If you wish a paper copy, newsletters are available for $2 each for members,  $5 each for non-members. Please mail a check payable to L.A.G.H.S. along with the date of the newsletter and number of copies  to: L.A.G.H.S., c/o Central Square, 222 E 9th Street, Lockport, IL  60441. 

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2024

2022 (under construction)

2023 (under construction)

  • Jan
  • Feb
  • Mar - New Avenue
  • Apr - This Old Barn, Repurposed

Fire!

  • May -  Lockport Gardens from 1830’s—1900’s 
  • Jun -  Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie Field Trip

Daggett's Mill

  • Jul -   Women In History: Juliette Kinzie.

Some Forgotten

  • Aug - George Burdette Corbett
  • Sep - Another Blakeslee
  • Oct - Impacts of Canal Corridor Tourism

Enterprise Livery Stable

  • Nov - Terror Town

2023 (under construction)

2022 (under construction)

2023 (under construction)

  • Jan
  • Feb
  • Mar
  • Apr
  • May
  • Jun
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • Sep
  • Oct
  • Nov

2022 (under construction)

2022 (under construction)

2022 (under construction)

  • Jan
  • Feb
  • Mar
  • Apr
  • May
  • Jun
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • Sep
  • Oct
  • Nov

2021 (under construction)

2021 (under construction)

2021 (under construction)

  • Jan
  • Feb
  • Mar
  • Apr
  • May
  • Jun
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • Sep
  • Oct
  • Nov

2020 (under construction)

2021 (under construction)

2021 (under construction)

  • Jan
  • Feb
  • Mar
  • Apr
  • May
  • Jun
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • Sep
  • Oct
  • Nov

2019 (under construction)

2021 (under construction)

2019 (under construction)

  • Jan
  • Feb
  • Mar
  • Apr
  • May
  • Jun
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • Sep
  • Oct
  • Nov

2018 (under construction)

2018 (under construction)

2018 (under construction)

  • Jan
  • Feb
  • Mar
  • Apr
  • May
  • Jun
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • Sep
  • Oct
  • Nov

2017 (under construction)

2018 (under construction)

2018 (under construction)

  • Jan
  • Feb
  • Mar
  • Apr
  • May
  • Jun
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • Sep
  • Oct
  • Nov

2016

2018 (under construction)

2016

  • Jan - Here Comes the Band
  • Feb - Church History
  • Mar - Lockport's First Telephone System
  • Apr - Lockport in 1840's
  • May - Chester Allen
  • Jun - Prairie Farmer 1853
  • Jul - Prof. Daniel H. Darling; Pt 1&2
  • Aug - Prof. Daniel H. Darling; Pt 3
  • Sep - Prof. Daniel H. Darling; Pt 4
  • Oct - When Does Baseball Season Ever End?
  • Nov - Morton Bestie Kazar

2015

2015

2015

  • Jan - 16th & State; A Family's Corner
  • Feb - Ed Flank Field
  • Mar - Times of Lockport High
  • Apr - Peoria Stories
  • May - Civil War; 100th Illinois Reunion
  • Jun - Norton & Co.
  • Jul - Thomas E. Lonergan & the Secret Service
  • Aug - Norton Opera House
  • Sep - Photos From Archives
  • Oct - Obituaries & Funeral Homes
  • Nov - Joseph I. Corcoran

2014

2015

2015

  • Jan - Civil War
  • Feb - Pictures of the Past
  • Mar - LTHS Alumni 

Clinton Warner

  • Apr - Moving a Pioneer Graveyard
  • May - (Book Review) Hiding the Past: Genealogical Crime Mystery
  • Jun - Illinois Day Trip

FIRE!

  • Jul - Boza's Hot Dogs
  • Aug - Young Lady's Scrapbook & Diary
  • Sep - Story Behind a Name
  • Oct - Gettysburg

Father Wm. Corby

  • Nov - Baptist Church of Lockport

2013

2015

2013

  • Jan - Civil War
  • Feb - Researching Chicago Ancestors
  • Mar - Golden Age of Lockport Basketball
  • Apr - Building the Canal to Save Chicago
  • May - Blackhawk War 1832
  • Jun - Gardening

Rural Homer Glen

  • Jul - 1st Cat's Meow

Prohibition

  • Aug - People of Texaco
  • Sep - Lockport and Homer in Irish Legion
  • Oct - Clothes of School Year 1874
  • Nov - Canal History

2012

2012

2012

  • Jan - LAGHS Archives
  • Feb - Family Members not in Family Tree (Pets)
  • Mar - Historic Rt 66/I55

Norton Buildings

  • Apr - Brian Smith Ancestors
  • May - LTHS Music Man Band 50th Anniversary
  • Jun - Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie: Lincoln Boys in Blue
  • Jul - War of 1812 Pension Papers
  • Aug - Texaco in WWII
  • Sep - Early Lockport Educators
  • Oct - Groth, Koener, Freudenreich, Schultz Families of Lockport
  • Nov - Pepys in Lockport

2011

2012

2012

  

  • Jan-Branches in the Family Tree
  • Feb-Irish Genealogy Branches
    Homer Horse Thief Society
  • Mar-Will County Poor Farm & Potters Field
  • Mar-The Lockport Cemetery
    Serendipity - Found family on Internet
  • Mar-Serendipity - Found family on Internet
  • Apr-Records-They're Vital
    New Found Cousin
  • Apr-New Found Cousin
  • May-WWII Letter
    American Legion; Post 18; Lockport
  • Jun-LAGHS 10th Anniversary Celebration
    Texaco Tennis Tournament
  • Jul-Memories of Early Illinois
  • Aug-Home Sweet Home
  • Sep-Early Lockport Business-1874
    Green Thumb Garden Club
  • Oct-LAGHS - Sharing our History
  • Nov-Stories We Could Tell
    The Wedding Dress
    Poison Mushrooms-Bolognani
    A Christmas Time Remembrance
    Diary of Homer Township 

2010

2012

2010

  

  • Jan-First Congregational Church Lockport
  • Feb-Family Vacations
  • Mar-Mayor Dev Trivedi
  • Apr-100 Years of Radio
  • Jun-I&M Canal Tour
    Tales from Calvary Cemetery
    Dynamite Did It
  • Jul-Newspapers-Goldmine for Genealogist
  • Jul-Fort July - July 4 celebration 1930's
    WWI letter Wm. Kirman to T. Williams
  • Aug-Buildings as History of Place
  • Sep-The Lincoln Highway
    Runyon Cemetery
  • Oct-13th Street Train Station
    Athletic Year Book 1912-13
  • Nov-Cemetery Preservation

2009

2009

2009

  

  • Jan-Swedish Genealogy
  • Feb-Sisson Family Gathering 2008
  • Mar-Glenn Carlson's Marvelous Adventure
    Lockport Central Grade Sch 1927
    Sacred Heart School Lockport 1938
  • Apr-The Travelogues of the Ad-man c.1914
  • May-Local history stories
  • Jun-United Service Assoc. Lockport WWII
    Student articles on FHA c 1933
  • Aug-Westward moving families
    1864 letter Thomas William to son
  • Sep-Lockport's Italian families; the Fracaro
    VASA; Thor Lodge 1908; roster
  • Oct-Joliet Arsenal Tour
  • Nov-1908 U. S. Cavalry at Dellwood Park
    President Andrew Johnson in Lockport

2008

2009

2009

  

  • Jan-McCanna moneybelt of g-grandmother
  • Feb-Railroads in Lockport
    Lockport personal narrative 1874
  • Mar-Notoriety and Records
  • Apr-Local Library Resource
    Texaco Company
  • May-Ritchie Family by June Coon
  • Jun-Lockport Power Plant
    Civil War Veterans in Lockport Cem.
  • Jul-100th Illinois in the Civil War
  • Aug-Kuusisalo – Salo
    Coon; Ira
    Dow; Clara
  • Sep-The Lockport Cemetery
  • Oct-Austin-Welter Barn
  • Nov-Sly Families

2007

2009

2007

  

  • Jan-Bozo Hotdog Stand Nativity Scene
  • Feb-Ancestor Appreciation Day
  • Mar-1850 letters
    Ranes/Wilson Family
    Saloons; Taverns; Bars & Pubs
  • Apr-Ehrfeld/Dollinger/Dryfus Families
    The Outhouse as History
  • May-Burcenski/Haas Families
    Bylaw changes
    Cemetery Conservation
  • Jun-LTHS Band-1983 Reunion
    Tonn/Gillett/Sproat Families
  • Jul-Allen G. Hawley
    Canal Days Past
  • Jul-Canal Days 2007
  • Aug-Baseball c 1933 & 1926
    Lockport's German Heritage
    Vintage Baseball
  • Sep-Dellwood Park
    Lockport Flood 
  • Oct-Farm Life 1920's-Mabel Fracaro
    Prairie Farmers' Protective Union
    Rural Historic Structural Survey
  • Nov-A Different Burial Story
    DVD; Interviews of senior citizens

2006

2006

2006

  

  • Jan-Charivari; Anyone?
    Herbert Gulden Mary Rodeghero
  • Feb-Caneva Shoe Store
    Caneva's Accordion Band
    Gooding Mansion
  • Mar-Early elected officials
    Joliet Historical Museum
    Lockport Politics 1853
  • Apr-Elmer Ott; Photographer
    Will Co. Landmarks in Lockport
  • May-One Room Schools
    Pfc Edward Rossetto - 1944
  • Jun-Politics; Lockport 1860
    Quilts in the Underground RR
  • Jul-Faces from the Past
    Labor Unrest on Canal 1893
    The Roxy and the Chatterbox
  • Aug-Gustafson/Lindstrom home
    Lockport; Alton Station
    Pehrson-Johnson
    Scandinavian Heritage
  • Sep-Dellwood Park
  • Oct-Caneva & Asiago Italy
    Fire Dept History
  • Nov-Cemeteries of Midewin
    WWII Pearl Harbor

2005

2006

2006

  

  • Jan-Gooding; William
  • Feb-Central Grade School
  • Mar-1890's Surveyor Archer Avenue
    Illinois Central Railroad
    Torn Down Houses of Lockport
  • Apr-Gooding; Anna & Edward
    John Wilkes Booth
    Lockport and Abe Lincoln
  • May-Bankroff
    Norton & Company
    Songs of the Civil War
  • Jun-Fitzpatrick Family
    Lockport Immigrants 1850- 1880
    Zion Evangelical Luth Ch 1950
  • Jul-Brother Martin Lecture
    Central School c. 1860
  • Aug-House of Ill Repute
    Sisson Family
  • Sep-Dellwood Park
    LTHS opens 1910
  • Oct-Cornolos Grocery
    Mario's Barbershop
    Pesavento Bros Grocery
  • Nov-Henry LeCaron; British Spy
    Lockport in the 1930's
    Payroll Robbery 1937

2004

2006

2004

  

  • Jan-Chicago Sanitary/Ship Canal
  • Feb-Bill Molony; Railroad man
  • Mar-A Family Mystery
  • Apr-Dead-man's cave
  • May-House in the Park
    Lewis University
  • Jun-Fairmont Community Center
  • Jul-Canal Day Parade 2004
  • Aug-Bohemian in Lockport
    Tornado
  • Sep-1931 Play: Henry's Wedding
  • Oct-Canallers in the Corridor
    Waterman Collection
  • Nov-Examination of Title
    Life of the Prairie Farmer
    Mt. Calvary Cemetery

2003

2003

2003

  

  • Jan-Hyland Family
  • Mar-Irish Build the Canal
  • Apr-Bylaws of LAGHS
  • May-Des Plaines Valley
  • Jun-Chautauqua
  • Jul-Baptist Church
  • Aug-Crest Hill
  • Sep-Canadian genealogy
  • Oct-Bridges of Lockport
  • Nov-Cemeteries of Will Co

2002

2003

2003

  • Jan - Treasures of Christmas Past
  • Feb - Romeoville Settlers
  • Mar - Asiago - Italian Heritage
  • Apr - Haytown: Mystery
  • Jun - Dellwood Park; LTHS Band
  • Jul - Homer; Lockport Always Close
  • Aug - Homer Township; 

Old Canal Days

  • Sep - Delwood Park House
  • Oct - Dellwood Park; Grant Fairmont Home
  • Nov - Texaco; Ott Family History
  • Dec - Swedish Genealogy

2001

2003

2001

  • Sept - Cemeteries of Will County

Crilly Family History

Gooding Mansion

  • Oct - First Installation Banquet
  • Nov - Pa and His Pepper

Wiershem Family

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