1411 N 27th St.
Mt. Vernon, IL 62864
Phone: 618-246-0033
Email:
jchsvip14@gmail.com

Open weekends from the first full weekend in May through the last full weekend in October.

 

Saturday

12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m.

Sunday

1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

 

Docents are available for group tours most other days by appointment. 

Admission is free although donations are appreciated.


Office Hours
Monday - Friday
 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

 

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The chairman of the Jefferson County Historical Society History Research Committee is a published Jefferson County historian.  A retired longtime teacher of history, he compiles articles full of interesting facts from our early history collected while researching for new publications.  Links to some of his articles are listed below.  More of his articles are included in each quarterly publication of the Jeffersonian newsletter available only to members, and in publications available for sale at the village.

 

UNUSUAL VISITORS

JEFFERSON COUNTY STORIES IN NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS

CONNECTIONS 

LEG BURIED IN WEST SALEM CEMETERY

LABOR UNREST IN JEFFERSON COUNTY 1877

THE PUGILIST MAYOR OF MT. VERNON

YEGGMEN

OLD NEWSPAPERS REVEAL LIFE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY

MT. VERNON'S CHILD PRODIGIES OF THE 1890s