Cullom’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Cullom. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Cullom owes its beginning to the Illinois Central Railroad which reached the village in 1878. The location of the village was established by Frederick Hack who granted a 90-foot right of way across his farm and paid a cash bonus of $4000 to the railroad company. Hack platted and laid out the village and donated forty acres of land on which to build it.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Cullom’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cullom’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewSchool in Collum, Livingston Coun…, 1912: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Cullom
See all 2 →Cullom, decade by decade
1990s
unknown1 item
Nothing in Cullom is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cullom has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Thomas A. Beach House in Fairbury, 15.3 miles away.
Cullom and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as School in Collum, Livingston County, Illinois, United States, 1912 (1912) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.