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Churches and Other Religious Institutions

• Benson Chapel  Riggston-Merritt United Methodist Church     (Source: Archives of the Illinois Great Rivers Conference)
• History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois, 1819-1914  Pages 384-385, Scott County     (Source: Internet Archive)
• History of the Springfield Baptist Association, 1881  with sketches of the churches of which it is composed, and biographical sketches of deceased ministers     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Postally used b&w photo postcard of Winchester UMC      (Source: Archives of the Illinois Great Rivers Conference)
• Presbyterian Church  Winchester     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Presbyterian Church, Winchester, Illinois      (Source: Internet Archive)
• Presbyterian Church, Winchester, organized, April 24, 1839  History of the Presbyterian Church in the state of Illinois     (Source: Google Book Search)
• Primitive Baptist Churches  Church and Family History Assistance     (Source: The Primitive Baptist Library of Carthage)

Histories of specific towns and townships

• Bluffs  yesterday and today, 1871-1971     (Source: Internet Archive)
• An Act to Incorporate the town of Winchester, in Scott County, in force March 4, 1843      (Source: Google Book Search)
• Winchester Historical Background 

Library

• Library, Winchester, Ill.  Postcard
• Library, Winchester, Ill.  Postcard

Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

• Alsey, IL Tornado, May 1880      (Source: GenDisasters)
• April 3, 1913 - Illinois River Flood  Levees at Naples (Scott County, Illinois) and Meredosia (Morgan County, Illiniois) broke     (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
• Cholera at Exeter, Ill. in 1873. by Wilson C. Carver, M.D.  Also includes cases in Bluffs, Scott County, Illinois     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Flood Marker  1993     (Source: Historic Markers)
• June 14, 1948 - Hail storm, 4 inches deep  16 mile path from Meredosia (Morgan County, Ill.) to near Winchester (Scott County, Ill.), over $1,076,500.00 in damage     (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
• Lincoln Speech, August 1854, Winchester, Illinois      (Source: Historic Markers)
• Scott County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
• St. Clair, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark and Stephenson County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
• Winchester - 1st Sunday School Convention, April 20, 1840      (Source: Historic Markers)

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