The Lake County Discovery Museum holds three signature quilts in its permanent collections, dating from 1891 - 1915. Signature quilts bec...

To be "ridden on a rail" was a common form of mob punishment in Colonial America, but curiously, it turned up in the village of Vo...

The Browe School was named for English-born, William Browe, Jr. (1814 - 1888), who gave the land for the school. The Browe School welcomed s...

While cataloguing a portion of the glass negatives in the museum's collection, I came across a view of the People's Drug Store in Wa...

Large letter postcard by the Curt Teich Co. Chicago, 1950. OCH185.  This year (2011) marks the centennial of the establishment of Naval Stat...

The story of the Benwell crazy quilt, in the collections of the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, is one of a pioneering family and the...

George E. Smith, Jr. (1842-1915), was born in Antioch in 1842 to parents, George and Mercy. The Smiths were natives of Salem, Massachusetts...