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The Barrington Area Library is collecting materials for its Local History Room.  In order to preserve the history of Barrington, the library is looking for the following:

• Photographs
• Meeting minutes
• Newsletters
• Telephone directories
• Club and school directories
• Yearbooks
• Scrapbooks

We would be happy to archive these materials at the Library or copy/scan them and return them to you.  If you have materials you would like to share, please email kmills@barringtonarealibrary.org.

Thanks to a grant from the Illinois State Library, the Barrington Area Library is pleased to announce that the tax rolls of Cuba Township for the years 1885-1899 are now available online.  Genealogists and local history researchers can find names, legal descriptions of the land, its assessed and equalized value, and what taxes were owed and paid.

The records are full-text searchable, and there is also a master index of names.  They are available at http://cdm.digitalpast.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/barringt004.