What better way to find Christmas, birthday, anniversary, or other special occasion gifts, than to experience one-stop shopping at the Morrison Community Hospital Auxiliary Second Annual Autumn Splendor Vendor Fair. The event is Thursday, October 20, 2016, from...
Editor’s note: Stan Mitick took the photograph of the Editor. Naming a person, place, or thing is determined by reason, even if lost to time. We have ample criteria to support the name of Whiteside County. In fact, the name”Whiteside...
“Legacies of Savanna,” an indoor, seated cemetery tour, will be given on Saturday, October 22, 2016, at the Savanna Museum and Cultural Center, 406 Main Street, Savanna, IL, at 2:00 p.m. First-person presenters will portray eight of Savanna’s...
Scheduled for Saturday, October 29, 2016, Morrison’s Halloween Parade and Costume Contest has grown to become one of the area’s must-attend Halloween events. Presented by Morrison Chamber of Commerce and Cottonwood 4-H Club, the annual parade down...
Why isn’t Morrison called Johnson, IL, or Johnsonville, or Johnson Grove? The future town of Morrison, in Whiteside County, IL, was surveyed and laid out in 1855, due in great part to one of the original proprietors: Lyman Johnson. He was a railroad...
