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Sangamon County Conservation District Committee

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MC58. Sangamon County Conservation District Committee Records, 1972-1974

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Identifier: MC-58
Scope and Contents Formed in 1972 to campaign for a referendum that would establish a conservation district in Sangamon County, Illinois by levying taxes to purchase undeveloped lands for the purpose of conservation and recreation. Major campaign strategists of the Committee were Madeline Dorosheff and her son, Nicholas Dorosheff. Referendum was defeated in 1974. Memoranda, correspondence, membership and mailing lists, promotion and campaign notes, organizational plans, speech transcripts, brochures,...
Dates: Created: 1972 - 1974; Other: Date acquired: 04/00/1986