Historical Markers and War Memorials in Kankakee County, Illinois
Adjacent to Kankakee County, Illinois
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On County Road N 232 East (Illinois Route 114) just east of N River Isle (N 14500E) Road, on the right when traveling east.
In honor of Walter Andrew and George Hess, Pioneers, whose frontier courage, strength and spirit typified the early days in the Kankakee Valley. — Settled here 1839 — — — Map (db m105839) HM
On Sand Bar Road (Illinois Route 42) 0.2 miles north of Day Road, on the right when traveling north.
Historical Marker
McHie Ferry
Est. 1910 - Disc. 1920
Kankakee County's First Ferry
Made by Wm. and James McHie
Aroma Park Lions Club — — Map (db m9675) HM
Near Straford Drive East just west of Main Street NW (Illinois Route 102), on the left when traveling west.
Many of the nineteenth-century French-Canadian settlers of Bourbonnais Grove planted the Jardin aux Potages (literaly translated from French to English as “Garden of the Kitchen”). Altough local history does not indicate the exact . . . — — Map (db m105653) HM
On Straford Drive East just west of Main Street NW (Illinois Route 102), on the left when traveling west.
Bourbonnais Grove’s first families came from Quebec’s Upper St. Lawrence Valley in the 1830s and ’40s to settle what would become the largest 19th century French-Canadian agrarian village in Illinois. Some immigrants moved on to found St. Anne, St. . . . — — Map (db m105623) HM
On Straford Drive East just west of Main Street NW (Illinois Route 102), on the left.
Dedicated to the memory of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, Noel Le Vasseur, Francois Bourbonnais—early pioneers in the employ of The American Fur Company who had a post near this site. Father de Pontavisse, first priest and religious . . . — — Map (db m105636) HM
Near Crosswell Avenue north of Perry Street, on the right when traveling north.
Durham-Perry Farmstead is located on the Perry Farm. It is maintained and operated as an historic site by the Bourbonnais Township Park District.
This plan shows the farmstead as it is today. The drawing is not the scale. The farmstead occupies . . . — — Map (db m58104) HM
Near Croswell Avenue north of Perry Street, on the left when traveling east.
Thomas Durham bought 160 acres on this site in 1835 from Gurdon S. Hubbard. Known as the Jonveau Reserve, the land lay in an area called Bourbonnais Grove. Durham opened 20 acres for cultivation. In January 1836, parts of Cook and Iroquois Counties . . . — — Map (db m105729) HM
Near Croswell Avenue north of Perry Street, on the right when traveling north.
Thomas Durham, a Quaker, was born on October 1, 1784, in Brunswick, Virginia, to “a large and influential family” of English origin. They
had settled in Virginia in the later part of the 17th or early part of the 18th century.
. . . — — Map (db m105800) HM
On Illinois Route 1 just north of East River South Road when traveling north.
This trail was blazed by Gurdon S. Hubbard, 1822–1824, connecting the trading posts of the American Fur Company between Vincennes and Chicago. Momence, near the upper crossing of the Kankakee River, is on this trail. Known also as the . . . — — Map (db m105838) HM
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