Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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,...

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County Conservation District Meetings and Existing CCD's; CCD Macon County Law - Summaries and Excerpts; Promotion - Remainder; Examples of Brochures; Publicity - Media, TV, Radio, Newspapers; Publicity Printed for CCD--locally [these folders include newspaper clippings]

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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,...

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Includes copy of Circuit Court petition to organize Sangamon County Conservation District

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Includes copy of the Illinois Nature Preserves System Act [SCC-Sangamon Conservation Council]

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Speaker's Booklet (Background For) [includes Fact Booklet for the County Conservation District]

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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,...

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Includes Preston Schellback's talk on CCD on March 6, 1974; Sangamon County Survey of Historic Sites]

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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,...