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Henderson County Public Library > Oquawka 150th Celebration

Oquawka 150th Celebration

1836-1986  Court House – Treasurer’s Office

Left to Right- Bettie Simpson, Bea Lock, Eileen Nolan, Lovine Bell, Velma Reeder, Jean Painter, Helen Campbell, Betty Quigley, Phyllis Zielke

Canoeing Canoeing Car Show Car Show Children Searching For A Prize Dog on Table Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment  Horses Horses Lincoln Line Dancing Motorcycles Oquawka Sesquicentennial Cake Posing for a Picture Singing Singing Speaker Speaker Speakers

Parade

Boy Scouts Eliza American Legion Fishing on the Float American Flag Float Pulled By Tractor Gateway to the Future Girl and Her Dog Grand Marshall Lillie Hall Help the Handicapped Child Horses Lady on Horse Lincoln Little Red Car Mayor Barbara Lumbeck Indians Came By the Mississippi to Yellow Banks Oquawka Ambulance Oquawka Masonic Lodge #123 Paddlewheelers CB Club Monmouth, ILL American Legion Queens Security Savings Shriners Motor Bike Group Singing Float Stanton Insurance Agency Tastee Delite Oquawka Village Board Vote For Eileen Nolan

Oquawka Sesquicentennial 

July 4, 1986 Parade

Charles Parsons Car –

Marty Parsons, Adam, and Roger in front seat.

Temperature- 97 degrees

Vote For Eileen Nolan Vote For Eileen Nolan Vote For Eileen Nolan Vote For Eileen Nolan

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