Oswego’s Little White School Museum and the Oswegoland Heritage Association will start their observance of National Historic Preservation Month at noon Saturday, May 4, with “Lost Oswego,” a chronicle of the loss of some of the Community’s landmarks during the last century- and-a-half. The Museum is at 72 Polk Street,...
Sixty years ago, the Oswego area, still overwhelmingly rural, was in the midst of its first major population growth spurt since the settlement era. Those in attendance can find out what it has been like to live through the community’s profound changes since that time when the Little White School...
There are still some openings for the Oswegoland Heritage Association’s architectural stroll down Oswego’s historic South Main Street this Saturday, Nov. 4. South Main offers an architectural time capsule of Oswego and the Fox Valley region, with design styles ranging from Greek Revival to homes with Frank Lloyd Wright touches...
Answers are available for those who wonder why kids from Joliet, Plainfield, Minooka, Yorkville, Montgomery, and Aurora all go to Oswego schools. Or, how Oswego got its name? Or, who the first white settlers of the community were? Or, who the Native People already living here were who greeted the...
Through the centuries, Americans invested a tremendous amount of labor, materials, and money into making and maintaining their wardrobes. At 6:45 p.m. Thursday, April 27, the Little White School Museum will be host to a free program on “The Life Cycle of Clothing,” recounting how our 19th Century ancestors viewed...
In 1905, King Flipper Cigars were manufactured in downtown Oswego, which the notation at the lower right of the inside of the cigar box testifies. It was one of the stops featured on the Little White School Museum’s “Oswego History Tour—Industrial Sector,” Saturday, April 15.
The Little White School Museum, 72 Polk Street, Oswego will be host to a special Easter Egg make and take family craft activity Sunday, April 2.
The Oswegoland Heritage Association and Oswego’s Little White School Museum, 72 Polk Street, at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 18 for “From War Plants to Prairie Plants: Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and the Joliet Arsenal” presented by Midewin Heritage Program Manager and Archaeologist Joe Wheeler. The program host is the heritage...
The fascinating history to be learned behind the transformation of the Joliet Arsenal into the stunning Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie when the Oswegoland Heritage Association, in partnership with the Oswegoland Park District, presents “From War Plants to Prairie Plants: Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and the Joliet Arsenal” at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 18 in the Museum’s Roger Matile Room.
Two big events, this month and next month, will be at the Little White School Museum in Oswego. • Proud of all the history on your family you’ve discovered? Find out how to showcase all your hard work during “Thinking Inside the Box: Display Your Family History in a New...
Do you remember the excitement of waking up Christmas morning to discover what treasures Santa left for you to enjoy? It will be possible to relive part of that excitement you, and generations of other Oswego area children have experienced when visiting the Little White School Museum’s “Toys from the...
The holiday shopping season kicks off and Oswego’s Little White School Museum, 72 Polk Street, Oswego, is offering two unique Cat’s Meow architectural miniatures for sale as their 2022 fundraiser, along with a selection of many other Oswego-themed gifts. The two latest Cat’s Meow architectural miniatures of Oswegoland historic structures...
World War I has been called the most musical of all wars and on Saturday, Nov. 12, Oswego’s Little White School Museum will be host to an interactive webinar, “The Music of World War I.”
Oswego’s Little White School Museum invites all area residents to visit their annual “Remembering our Veterans” special exhibit at the museum, 72 Polk Street (Jackson at Polk), just two blocks from historic downtown Oswego. This is the 16th year the exhibit to honor area veterans has been hosted by the...
The Little White School Museum, 72 Polk Street (Jackson at Polk) in Oswego invites all former Oswego School District athletes, coaches, sponsors, and other sports staffers to their first “School Reunion – Athletics,” to gather to reminisce about the fun they had during their school careers. The “School Reunion –...
Margaret Phillips Young sits outside her home on South Main Street in Oswego in this photo taken approximately in 1890.
Did you know northern Illinois was once home to “The World’s Shortest Railroad”? Find out all about this bit of rail transportation trivia when the Oswegoland Heritage Association hosts author Jeff Kehoe and a presentation on his latest book for Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of Rail” series, Illinois Midland Railway Saturday,...
Jim Phillips was taking a walk near his home one day in the mid-1960s when he came across some ducks that had been killed by industrial waste from a factory. A junior high biology teacher by day, the discovery and the fact that what few environmental laws existed were virtually...
Seats remain for the Little White School Museum’s first historic Spring bus tour of Oswego. Sunday, April 10, for two “Industrial History bus tours of Oswego. Pre-registration, $5 per person for participants age 16 and older, is required by visiting the Oswegoland Park District’s web site at www.oswegolandparkdistrict.org or calling...
Did you know Kendall County was home to the first female professor in the country? 1n 1878, Lisbon-native Mary Rippon joined the newly founded University of Colorado as the first woman to teach at a state university. Rippon is just one of the fascinating local women you can learn about...
