Home of the first settler of DuPage County. A flowing spring attracted Bailey Hobson to come from Indiana to build a cabin in 1830 and a home in 1835. Hobson was a farmer, miller and soldier in the Black Hawk War.
The mill site, now . . . — — Map (db m234774) HM
Near this site in 1832 a 100-foot square stockade enclosed by wooden pickets, with two blockhouses on diagonal corners, was built. Here Captain Morgan L. Payne and his company of forty-five men protected the settlers from roaming Sauk Indians during . . . — — Map (db m97574) HM
Naperville's Horse Market Days drew farmers and dealers from all over to haggle and show off their horses.
Monthly horse sales in front of the Pre-Emption House began in 1885. Dealers hired boys to exercise the animals and take them to the . . . — — Map (db m246563) HM
John Dudley was born February 25, 1758 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. In 1776 at the age of 18, he enlisted in the New Hampshire militia and served at Fort Ticonderoga in Colonel Reed's Regiment. There Dudley and the rest of the American troops . . . — — Map (db m230990) HM WM
Site of
First Frame House
in DuPage County
Home of
George Martin Family
Built in 1833
Willed to the City
of Naperville
in 1936
Destroyed by Fire
in 1958 — — Map (db m234806) HM
North Central's award-winning radio station was launched in 1946 by World War II student veterans, many of whom had served as service radio technicians. Granted a license in 1968 to operate as WONC-FM 89.1 the station and its student broadcasters . . . — — Map (db m246562) HM
This plow, which helped turn wild prairies into productive farm fields, represents the logo of the Naperville Heritage Society.
As a fledgling grassroots organization in 1969, volunteers began holding an annual Antiques Show and Sale to . . . — — Map (db m246633) HM
Illinois — The Prairie State
Illinois was once part of the vast grasslands known as the "tallgrass prairie" where vegetation often reached a height of ten feet. Native Americans were the first people to use the resources held within the . . . — — Map (db m234801) HM
The 60-acre McDonald Farm was donated to The Conservation Foundation by Lenore (Clow) McDonald in 1992 and is used for agriculture, education and conservation purposes. The farm is private property and is open to the public during regular weekday . . . — — Map (db m234804) HM