Bernadotte’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Bernadotte. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Fulton County was organized in 1823 from Pike County. It is named for Robert Fulton, developer of the first commercially successful steamboat. American poet and writer Edgar Lee Masters lived in Fulton County during the 1890s; he later became famous for the Spoon River Anthology, written in 1915.
The county is known for the annual Spoon River Scenic Drive, which occurs the first 2 weekends in October. This has been a tradition since 1968 and attracts thousands of participants from all over the country.
Fulton County is home to the Ogden-Fettie Site, a significant site for Havana Hopewell Native culture. It is the largest collection of Woodland Mounds in Illinois, with 35 Mounds, dating from 400 BC, arranged in a crescent.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Bernadotte’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bernadotte’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewC.B. & Q. Depot and Train, Astori…, 1914: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Bernadotte
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Bernadotte, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as C.B. & Q. Depot and Train, Astoria, Ill. 17288 (1914) and it appears here side by side.
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National Register · via WikidataFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.