Petersburg News

On the trip they will be able to make purchases at both places, so if your garden isn't full enough you can get plants then.

PETERSBURG The sights, sounds and activities of summer in an authentic 1830s log village will greet visitors during the Summer Festival scheduled for Saturday, June 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Lincolns New Salem State Historic Site near Petersburg.

On St. Dunstan's Day, a tornado that traveled from Windsor to St Albans, England was described as a "marvelous sore tempest of weather, the air being darkened on every side from the four corners thereof, and withal chanced such a thunder as few the like had been heard." Forest fires in Michigan sent smoke across New England, which made the sky as ... (more)

The Sangamon River set a record crest at Riverton on this date at 31.52 feet. Further downstream, the river reached 33.9 at Petersburg on the 20th and resulted in large sections of the town being flooded.

Horse-drawn plows, historic farming equipment and agricultural techniques from the 19th century will be featured during the Antique Farm Show scheduled for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site , near Petersburg.