SPRINGFIELD - It was 125 years ago - June 3, 1890 - that Everett Barney donated 178 acres of land to the city that served as the beginning of Forest Park, and local officials marked the occasion with ...
There's the famous house in Springfield's Forest Park, and then there's the man of the house. And Everett Barney was quite a man. His revolutionary invention, mass produced right here in Springfield, ...