On Hobson Road (County Route 2) 0.2 miles Washington Street, on the right when traveling west.
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 S. Brainard Street, 0.1 miles south of East Chicago Avenue.
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
On South Webster Street at Aurora Avenue on South Webster Street.
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
Near South Washington Street south of West Hillside Road, on the right when traveling south.
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
On South Brainard Street near East Chicago Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
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
On South Webster Street at West Porter Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Webster Street.
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
Near Frontier Park Drive east of Cedar Glade Drive, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Knoch Knolls Road, 0.4 miles west of Ring Road, on the right when traveling west.
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
