The American small town and countryside were the most densely populated and prosperous around the turn of the Twentieth Century. Almost every town had a band along with other cultural organizations.

This band, young and old, ladies and gentlemen, parades through the main street of Dongola in the 1910's. A decade later U.S. 51 was built on top of this roadbed. In the 1990s, the highway was re-routed around the town to join I-57.
Parade in Dongola, Illinois, n.d. Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Collected by Jane Adams from the Dongola Tri-County Record.
PAGE |<< | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
D. Gorton's Home Page
Jane Adams' Home Page
Memory and Judgment: Mississippi
The White South
Contact Us
This page was last modified on:
Go back to previous page