Visit the National Genealogy Trails Site

McLean County Home

Visit the Illinois Genealogy Trails Site

Community of Barnes History
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

Barnes and Merna and two other villages are in the [Towanda] township. ["Official souvenir program, McLean County Centennial, Aug. 27, 28, 30, 1930" by: McLean County Illinois Centennial Souvenir Program Committee, Harold Lang and Eugene Funk] Also in Towanda Township is the small hamlet of Barnes, with a population of ten. It is served by the postoffice at nearby Normal. Just southwest of the hamlet is located the Bloomington Municipal Airport. [This is McLean County, Illinois by: John Drury, The Loree Co., Chicago, Illinois (1955)]

HOME