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Pontiac, Illinois

Art, History

Jones House

Pontiac, Illinois

Historic House

History, Historic House, Historical Society, Library

Pontiac is the legendary Ottawa Indian chief for which the city was named in 1837. The first settlers arrived in 1838. The city was platted in 1837 and became a center of population growth for the area. Industry was established in 1838 when a sawmill opened; the first grain mill opened in 1851. Because of its strategic location along the rail line connecting Chicago, Springfield and St. Louis in the late 1870s, Pontiac became an important regional trading center. Its location along the original Route 66, one of the nation’s first major interstate highways and traveled by hundreds of thousands of people from 1926 to the mid ‘60s, also contributed to the industrial and retail growth of the community.

History

General, History, Library, Military, Specialized

WELCOME TO THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY WAR MUSEUM - DAL ESTES EDUCATION CENTER IN PONTIAC ILLINOIS! COME VISIT OUR DISPLAYS FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE PRESENT. WE ARE STAFFED BY VETERANS AND LOCATED NEXT TO THE ROUTE 66 MUSEUM IN BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN PONTIAC.

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MUSEUM CONFERENCES

October 13 - October 14, 2025

2025 Annual Florida Association of Museums Conference & Expo titled: Preserving Paradise

Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort

Daytona Beach, Florida

We are excited to INVITE you to join us for the FAM Expo, October 13-14, in Daytona Beach. Join your colleagues and welcome the FAM attendees as we all talk about and share our strategies to keep Florida a Paradise.

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April 29 - May 2, 2026

Oregon Museum Association 2026 Conference

Woodburn, Oregon

OMA will join forces with Oregon Heritage for a spring conference in Woodburn

Save the Date: 2026 Conference

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October 13 - October 15, 2025

2025 Michigan Museum Association Conference: The Future is NOW

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center

East Lansing, Michigan

The conference Keynote Speakers will address the conference theme of The Future is Now.

Four sets of concurrent sessions provide the opportunity for members of the Michigan museum community to share their expertise and resource

The Museum Cafe is a general session that provides the opportunity for participants to explore a variety of topics in short, small-group discussions

Returning this year is the newly named Slide Sprint Session, a set of PechaKucha-style presentations which will give five conference attendees the chance to reflect on the conference theme using 20 slides shown in 20 second intervals.

Monday and Wednesday Drop-In Activities and Workshop

All conference attendees are invited to show your conference name badge to visit area museums and explore Greater Lansing during the block sessions on Monday morning and afternoon, and on Wednesday afternoon. All of these drop-in activities are included in your conference registration.

Participants are also invited to sign up for small-group workshops. Advance registration is required and an additional fees range from $15 to $50 to cover expenses.

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October 1 - October 4, 2025

Western Museums Association’s (WMA) 2025 Annual Meeting

TBA

Reno, Nevada

Save the Date for WMA 202

As we celebrate our 90th anniversary, join us to build relationships and soar higher than ever before. With the theme of ELEVATE, WMA 2025 will explore ways to lift up the experiences of cultural professionals and the communities they serve.

In Reno, Nevada, 4,400 feet above sea level, we will forward the progress of museums by looking to the future.

September 10 - September 13, 2025

2025 Am Assoc for State and Local History Annual Conference

TBD

Cincinnati, Ohio

The 2025 AASLH Annual Conference, in partnership with Ohio Local History Alliance, will take place as the history field makes the final preparations to kickoff off the 250th commemoration of the founding of the United States.

The 2025 conference theme, inspired by AASLH’s Making History at 250: The Field Guide for Semiquincentennial, is an opportunity to broadly explore one of the guide’s themes, The American Experiment. For many in the American colonies in 1776, independence from Britain represented a “leap into the dark” into an unknown future

We are excited for you to join us in Cincinnati as we encourage discussion about our democracy and civic institutions and how they can help strengthen understanding, inspire action, and reveal ways that all of us can participate in and shape the ongoing American experiment.

For more information, please call 615-320-3203 or email info@aaslh.org.