Talk:Woodford County, Illinois

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What the heck?!?![edit]

I suppose a short explanation of the long history section is in order. I've spent a lot of time at Wikipedia locating and posting up links to county-level histories. I've always suspected this was important and that solid "modern" histories could be constructed from these old sources. I just wanted to test the theory by trying to do it myself, and by luck of the draw Woodford County was the test case. I've never been to Woodford County, I don't know anyone who lives there, nobody from Woodford County is paying me — I just wanted to see whether pdfs of dusty old books could generate "fresh" history. It seems they can. —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR /// ShoeHutch@gmail.com /// Carrite (talk) 18:54, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]