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Tags: #8.003, belt line, belt line map, collection, Cushing 1st Addition, Decatur IL, Fairview Park, Illinois Terminal Company, Illinois Terminal System, ISHRAB-2017-25-44, ITS, map, Oak Crest Ave., Park Ridge Addition, railroad, Railroad Ave. streets, Railroad Map Collection, Springfield Road, Stevens Creek, Summit Ave., Sunset Crest Addition, Tracks, W. Green St., W. King St., W. William St., Wabash, Wabash Railroad, Wabash RR

Tags: #8.003, Adelbert D. Shinnoman, Arron Ford & Betsey A. Dickerson, assessors subdivision, collection, Decatur IL, Earl & Nettie Larrick, Earl W. & Ruth L. Bailey, Eldorado St., Eugene C. & Dorothea Hamill, F.J. Walters, Fairview Ave., Fairview Park, Fairview Place, H.H. Watson, Homer C. Dixon, houses, Illinois Terminal System, ISHRAB-2017-25-39, ITS, J.L. Walden, Kathryn Hunter, Louise R. Elder, map, Martha E. Ritter, Mary M. Osgood, McClellan Ave., plat map, plats, Queenie M. Powell, Railroad Map Collection, Richard & Marguerite Mount, Ruth Blair Hipsher, Streets, T.J. Campbell, Tracks, Vincent & Kate, W.A. Ivey, Wabash Railroad, Wabash RR

Tags: #8.003, Bessie Mae Lawler, Cerro Gordo St., Chalmer E. Baldrige, collection, Decatur IL, Eldorado St., Fairview Ave., Favette F. & Geneva Bennett, Fred J. Walter, George E & Rose Harris, Gertrude Ford Dickerson, Grace Fuller, Harold B & Lucille Walter, Illinois Terminal System, ITS, James Millikin University, Kenneth File, Maps, Mary H. Connard, Olive M. Thomas, Oscar H & Emma M Whitsitt, Peoples Saving & Loan Co., plat map, plats, Railroad Map Collection, Streets, Thomas W. Daly, Tracks, University Ave., Wabash Railroad, Wabash RR

Tags: 1901-1977, 2099's Bechome Extinct, ads, articles, Bardford Cantrell, Cannonball, Centennial History of Decatur and Macon County, Charlotte Meyer, Charlotte Meyer Collection, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, Decatur Tribune, Dedication, description, diagram, drawing, EB Hitchock, ET Coleman, Herald and Review, History of Macon County, merger, Norfolk and Western, Otto Kyle, Past and Present in Decatur and Macon County, photo, rates, schedule, Story of Decatur, time card, timepieces, Wabash Centennial Program, Wabash Depot, Wabash Railroad, Wabash Station, watches, William Ennis

Tags: 110 lbs, 1915, Athens IL, Bill of Lading, box of glass, conditions, Decatur IL, H. Hibbs, Henry Hibbs, Hibbs Personal Papers, May 20, prepaid, W. Hibbs, Wabash Railroad

Tags: 1930, Charles Wasson, Charles Wasson Photo Collection, Decatur Herald & Review, Decatur IL, Glass Negative, negative, Steam Engine, train, Wabash Railroad, Wasson Studios

Tags: 1st contract, 8th grade education, Amusement Park, automobile mechanic, bricklayer foreman, bricklayers trade, bull ring, casino, catholic schools, changes in construction, changes to Decatur, childhood, Churches, Construction, Cuba tour, customer loyalty, Decatur IL, Dreamland Park, Fairview Park, family, Florida, freight foreman, future of Decatur, garden, Great Depression, Hawaii, health issues, Indiana, interview, Jasper County IL, Juarez, Linn & Scruggs building, Lodge, Macon School, Mexico, Nassau Bahamas, oral history, Pennsylvania Railroad, photography, recording, retirement, Sarasota FL, shoveling coal, Staley Company, Streetcars, Travel, union, Wabash Railroad, wildcat whistle, World War I, World War II, WPA workers, WWI, WWII

Tags: "bear" crew, "gandy-dancers", 1982, accidents, Allis Chalmers, Army, Betty Turnell, braking, Conductor, Decatur IL, diesel engines, firing, freight trains, golf, grandchildren, interview, May 1982, Meyers' Brothers, Norfolk and Western Railroad, oral history, passenger trains, pension, politics, recording, retirement, social security, Steam Engines, track maintenance, Travel, W.T. Layton, Wabash Railroad

Tags: "Poor Man's Picnic", 1981, advertising department, August 1981, Betty Turnell, Bookkeeper, caretaker's cottage, Central Junior High School, changes to Decatur, Circus, Corn Carnivals, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Fairview Park, family life, Grand Ave., Great Eastern Tea and Coffee Company, Hartford House, Herkimer St., interview, James Millikin Homestead, Leader Iron Works, Mrs. O.L. Myers, Oakland School, Ofel Etchison, oral history, Polish picnic, Pugh School, Pugh St., Pugh Street School, recording, Red Cross hospital, Spanish flu, Stephen Decatur High School, Streetcars, summer streetcars, the Elms, Wabash Credit Union, Wabash Railroad, wooden paving blocks

Tags: "The Cannon Ball", 1977, automobile factory, bass drum, Betty Turnell, Bluebird, Canada, Canadian National Railroad, Cannon Ball, cement company, Charlie Cunningham, Decatur IL, Douglas Air Craft, Dr. Barnardo's Homes, farm work, farming, Feltwell England, Foreman, freemason, Grand Truck Railroad, Holmes Foundry, homestead farm, Imperial Oil Refinery, Infants' School, Inglewood Ontario, interview, John Day, London England, Marysville MI, Mason, Montreal Quebec, Music, National Guard, Norfolk County, November 1977, oral history, orphanage, paint shop, painter, painting, passenger trains, personnel, physical abuse, pigiron, Poetry, Port Huron MI, recording, retirement, round house, Sarnia Ontario, Steam Engines, tannery, The Great Lakes Navigation, Toronto Ontario, travelling, Tunbridge Wells England, visit to England, Wabash Railroad, Wills-St. Clair car, World War II