Local History Blog
As part of our mission to preserve the history of the Barrington area, the Library is collecting your photos and stories about life during these unprecedented and challenging times. If you’d like to share what life has been like while sheltering in place, working or e-learning from home, or being on the front lines in health care or essential services, we’re sure future generations would like to know how we got through it all.
Stories and photos can be emailed to Adult Services Librarian Kate Mills, kmills@balibrary.org, for inclusion on our local history web pages. Contact Kate if you have any questions about this project, or Barrington area local history in general!
She liked to climb the apple tree, 1925. This photo is from the Art Rice Collection. If you have photos to share, please email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org.
Downtown Barrington Business District. On the right, McLeister's Soda Shop and next to it the Ben Franklin Store, May, 1966. If you have photos to share, email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org.
This is Ella, Anna, Laura, and Carrie. The Dix Sisters. We'd like to thank Tim Dunn for sharing his photos of the Lines Family with us. If you have photos to share, email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org.
With snow on the ground and more on they way, we thought you'd like to see some winter scenes in the Barrington Area. Here's Flint Creek Savannah, courtesy of the Citizens for Conservation.
If you have photos of the Barrington Area you would like to share, please email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org
With snow on the ground and more on they way, we thought you'd like to see some winter scenes in the Barrington Area. Here's Millrose Farm in the 1950s.
If you have photos of the Barrington Area you would like to share, please email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org
The Signal Hill Chapter of the DAR will be placing wreaths at the graves of our veterans at Evergreen Cemetery, Saturday, December 14th at noon. Please join them in honoring our fallen heroes.
If you have photos of the Barrington Area you would like to share, please email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org
This photo from the Library's 2019 Comic Con Barrington shows off costumes in style!
If you have photos of the Barrington Area you would like to share, please email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org
This photo from the Paul Thompson Collection, shows off Barrington from the air. Mr. Thompson took photos of Barrington while flying with his good friends, Louie and Connie Bos.
If you have photos of the Barrington Area you would like to share, please email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org
This photo from the Barrington Courier-Review shows young Jack Trude being congratulated by his teammates when his uncle, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
If you have photos of the Barrington Area you would like to share, please email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org
This photo of the night sky, visible in Barrington Hills, is courtesy of Tom Auchter.
If you have photos of the Barrington Area you would like to share, please email Kate at kmills@balibrary.org
In honor of National Military Appreciation Month, we present a photo of Norris McGregor Hamilton, Civil War soldier. We thank Bruce Grabenkort for sharing this photo of his family member with us. If you have photos to share, please email Kate at the library, kmills@balibrary.org