All items are available at the Museum during regular hours. Items with postage indicated are available by mail order. Sorry but the museum does not accept credit cards at this time.
Send payment by check or money order made out to:
Oswegoland Heritage Association
PO Box 23
Oswego, IL 60543
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In the summer of 1961 Ed Gilbert was looking for a name for the new soft-serve ice cream shop he was opening on South Main Street in Oswego. So, he held a "We Need A Name" contest open to all area youngsters. The contest was won by Jerry Powers, an Oswego junior high school student. The name Powers that came up with, the Dari-Boat, stuck for several years before it was modified. Today, the business is known as the Dairy Hut on Main. This year's crock honors "The Hut's" 50th birthday as an Oswego Institution. The crock will again be manufactured by the Maple City Pottery in Monmouth, IL. Crock orders will be taken by mail or at the Little White School Museum through this years Prairiefest celebration ending June 19. Pick-up will be at the museum in late September.
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In 1955, a group of drag racing enthusiasts began racing on a quarter-mile dirt strip on a farm owned by the Smith family on U.S. Route 34 just west of Oswego, Illinois. The next year, the strip was paved, and the Oswego Drag Raceway was ready to go down in history as one of the nation's top drag racing venues. This mug, hand made at the Maple Ridge Pottery in Monmouth, Ill., brings back the earliest days of of "The Strip".
(shipping available, contact the museum for costs)
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The Illinois Lincoln Highway celebrates America's fist successful transcontinental highway that mobilized the Nation. The histories of the communities that are represented in this recipe book are historic as the highway itself. Each contributor was asked to tell a story and provide a recipe. Oswego is featured on ten pages. The recipe book is spiral bound and has 115 total pages.
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Always available at the museum, an assortment of Oswego themed crocks including one depicting the Little White School Museum. Prices vary depending on size. (shipping is not available). |
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Snowglobe with a replica of
the Little White School Museum mounted on a round
walnut 4 by 4 inch base.
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 Oswego Township, a new history in words and pictures, celebrates the 175th anniversary of the township's settlement. The book includes hundreds of historic photos of the Oswego Township area from the Little White School Museum's collections, some images dating back to the 1860s.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
Ruth Skaggs and her husband, Bev, were the first to buy a home in Boulder Hill.
Over the years they chronicled their new hometown's history which is presented in this book.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
, edited by Roger Matile; hardbound, 192 pages, photos, Oswego Sesquicentennial Steering Committee, Oswego, 1983. The first history of Oswego Township, illustrated with hundreds of historic photographs.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
, (NEW 3rd Edition) by Roger Matile
Softbound, 72 pages, index, Oswegoland Heritage Association, Oswego, 2010. Stories of the stagecoach routes and companies that served the newly settled areas west of Chicago during the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
, by Paul M. Shoger; spiralbound, 26 pages, Oswegoland Heritage Association, Oswego, 1991. Oswego Township historian Paul Shoger covers all the earliest churches in this brief history of religion in Oswego Township.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
by the Rev. E.W. Hicks, hardbound, reprint, 438 pages, Knickerbocker & Hodder, Aurora, Ill. 1877. The first history of Kendall County. Originally published as a series of articles in the Millington "Enterprise," one of the area's early newspapers that no longer exists.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
by the Rev. E.W. Hicks, 1877, electronic version in Rich Text Format (RTF) on either floppy disk or CD.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
by “Ray Fox” (Jim Phillips), Kindred Spirits Press, Montgomery, Ill. 1991, softbound, 168 pages, $15.00. The environmental autobiography of the famed environmental crusader, The Fox, whose exploits were chronicled in the national press, from Time magazine to columns by Mike Royko. All proceeds benefit the Fox Memorial Fund.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
, VHS video, original running time: 54:20. The documentary biography of “The Fox,” the environmental crusader that helped shine the light of publicity on environmental problems caused by industry and local government from the 1960s until his semi-retirement in the 1980s. All proceeds benefit the Fox Memorial Fund.
(plus $5 postage and handling)
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630. 554.2999 
Special Items for Sale
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Faith on the Prairie: The Religious History of Oswego Township, Illinois
