Born in 1922 as a third generation Galenian and grandson of formerly enslaved individuals, Beauford Clark Johnson served in the U.S. Navy for twenty-three years including time in the Pacific during World War II, the Korean War, and the beginning of the Vietnam War. He experienced the integration of the military as well as the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Trivia Winners The winning team from the Galena Trivia contest January 16 at Turner Hall, Mike Casper, Katey Casper, Mike Steinhoff, Janet Steinhoff, Janet Eggleston, Jon Clingman, John Cox, and Bonnie Cox
Born on July 25, 1877 in rural Rush Township, Myrtle Renwick Heer spent her life serving the citizens of Galena and Jo Daviess County through her career in the public school districts and her leadership in community, religious, and civic organizations.
December 27th saw us celebrate the beginning of our Bicentennial year with a mayoral proclamation and toast!
There are different accounts in regards to the birth of Galena’s remarkable citizen, Barney Norris.
Ely Samuel Parker, only man to hold the ranks of Sachem and US General, was posthumously admitted to the New York Bar, 130 years after his death and 160 years after he penned one of the most important legal documents in US history.
Imagine living in Galena in 1860.
April 27, 1918, was Ulysses S Grant’s 96th birthday. Kenesaw Mountain Landis delivered a speech for the occasion
There have been many wonderfully eccentric creatives in Galena through the years, one of them being the children’s author, poet, and lecturer Rowena Bastin Bennett.
Waanįk Šuuc, known to us as “Red Bird,” was a Ho Chunk leader who resisted the white incursion into Wisconsin. He was eventually surrounded and surrendered, expecting to be honorably executed. Instead he died imprisoned at Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1828.