Revolutionary War

George Rogers Clark.
Goes north on the Sac Trail
past Cornell.
Put down the Sac village at Rock Island.
Artifacts from that village

War of 1812

Kentucky Rangers came up the
Kickapoo Trail to Chatsworth
Kickapoo allies of British
1812 vets buried in area
British artifacts of time period

Black Hawk War 1832

Kickapoo men at village at Chatsworth
and Leroy join Black Hawk
Area militia units bury victims
at Indian Creek massacre
2 Black Hawk War vets buried
Cornell
Artifacts from Black Hawk War and
Kickapoo village displayed

ILLINOIS MICHIGAN CANAL

Walter Cornell comes to area to work
on canal. Wild Bill Hickok works canal.
On display Tama Hawk carried by
Wild Bill on Buffalo Bill’s stage show.

CIVIL WAR

Area vets at Vicksburg
Big Bend Reunion held at Cornell
for many years.

Walter Cornell son
Henry Montic son killed
Confederate at Gettysburg buried Cornell.

Artifacts from Vicksburg & Gettysburg
on display.

Stratton – Ohio. Youngest recipient
Medal of Honor

Listin Howe youngest drummer boy

Movie “Horse Soldiers” piece of Confederate
railroad rail depicted in movie

John Wayne portrays local vet

Pieces of wood from the scaffold
that hung the Lincoln conspirators

Wells Fargo artifacts payroll lost at Cornell

1876 CENTENNIAL YEAR

The US most prosperous county in
the world. US Army unit gets wiped
out by Stone Age people

Artifacts from US Army + artifacts
from Indian village at Little Big Horn

1898 2 SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

Vets in Cornell Cemetery
Uniform from Span Am War

1912 TITANIC SINKS WORLD STUNNED

Couple from Ottawa and Bloomington
survive. Piece of coal from Titanic
on display

1918 3rd generation Walter Cornell

Dies WWI. Artifacts on display
Horse gas mask

WW II

3 people including 1 Cornell work at
Los Alamos NM on atomic bomb
Desert sand melted by atomic
bomb on display

Piece of deck of Missouri
where McArthur
signs treaty with Japan

Henry Vorhese of Cornell
takes bullet through his dog tag
on Tarawa

Piece of Hindenburg
Piece of Berlin Wall

2001

Picture of airliner
flying over Cornell to Washington DC

The famous rodeo had performers
at Cornell. Stock was also used
in the International Amphitheater
in Chicago, the State Fairs
in the Midwest and first
rodeo ever broadcast.

Roy Rogers got the stock for
his rodeo at St. Louis.

See a special tribute to
the King of the Cowboys
frame with a cartridge +
a bullet fired out of his
six shooter and 2 commemorative
coins.