Nokomis is located in Montgomery County, Illinois, and has a population of about 2700. Our Lady Redskins basketball team brought home a BACK TO BACK IHSA State Championship Trophy in basketball for the 1998-99 season! Congratulations girls!
(The final for '99 was 45-40.)
Nokomis also has a state champion in art. Click the sign to see Shannon's sign and the picture she drew to win! She won Best of Show for 2001 at the Rembrandt Society Art Show!
This is main street of Nokomis looking east. A view of the Double Arches. They have since ruined this old landmark!
What do you want to see? Email me with any requests and I will see what I can do.
IHSA Scores and More Check this site out for IHSA scores and records. Our town has erected an impressive war memorial. Click on the thumbnails below to take a closer look.
Some other points of interest in our area.
Main street looking west.
Another view of the Arches.
A close-up view of some of the interesting artwork left on the arches.
The ruined double arches!
Sportsman's Club
Nokomis Park House
Memorial Park Pool
Nokomis Post Office
SPORTS
STEVE'S SPORTS PAGE Steve Johnson's page includes stats from Nokomis, past and present.
NOKOMIS HIGH SCHOOL SPORT STATS Listing of high school sports schedules, scores and more.
B-R-S MUSEUM Bottomley, Ruffing, Shalk Baseball Museum. NOKOMIS HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER CLUB Past club soccer team, 8th grade to senior, from the Nokomis Area. The BarbarianMonster truck by Jim Miller
Class of 1973 Reunion Site Lists class members, a little about the 25th reunion, and some fun 60's and 70's trivia pages.
Nokomis High School A web site for NHS made by students.
Nokomis Public Library Resource Directory Information on our local library
More links as they become available. If you have a site you want listed, just email me and include the URL and the title or owner of the page. If a link on this page has expired please let me know.
View GuestbookLots of interesting folks have visited this page since April 12th, 1998. Come back soon!! Look for more pictures soon.)
Nokomis has many legends about the origin of its name. One is from the poem Hiawatha, by Henry Longfellow. To view the entire poem (it is very long) click on Hiawatha. To view just the stanza that contains the myth of Nokomis click on Nokomis
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