This bank or sidehill barn built in 1916 using the latest and best bracing and roof design was the farm's most important structure. It served many functions, including the increasingly profitable dairy operation. The upper floor was mainly hay . . . — — Map (db m286283) HM
Irish immigrants Dennis and Catherine Buckley fled the Potato Famine in the mid-1800's and purchased the original 79 acre homestead for 50˘ per acre from soldiers who had received land grants after the war. Thrilled to own his own land, Dennis . . . — — Map (db m286188) HM
The west part of the near 1920 garage extended the domestic work area for washing and boiling clothes, summer cooking, milk separating, and possibly food preserving and soap-making. Thus it kept the main house cooler and cleaner in the summer. This . . . — — Map (db m286268) HM
Grain brought to the 1916 double-crib granary was stored in bins overhead and ear corn in the cribs along either side. Slatted walls in the cribs allowed air circulation to dry and preserve the farmer's most important crop. The central driveway, . . . — — Map (db m286669) HM
The oldest brick house in Lake County,
home of Melvin Halsted, founder of
Lowell, was built in 1849. His pit and
kilns were located just across Cedar
Creek.
Acquired for the community through the
combined efforts of interested . . . — — Map (db m231125) HM
The main house's original kitchen built in the 1850's adjacent to the NE corner of the house was moved north of the present kitchen in 1917 for use as separate living quarters and later to this present location for use as an office. This replica of . . . — — Map (db m286284) HM
After settling and living in a log house for the first few years, the Buckleys built the original or front part of the present house in the early 1850's. It is a typical I-house (found in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa) and characterized by . . . — — Map (db m286269) HM
Originally built about 1850 probably by William Holmes six miles east of here, the log house was discovered under siding and plaster during demolition. The logs were reused to build this house, a sample of mid-1800's southern Lake County. No indoor . . . — — Map (db m286231) HM
This is the site of the Main Street School grades 1 thru 12, built in 1896 with bricks from the Lowell brick yard. The high school students moved to a new high school in 1916. This school closed in 1973. — — Map (db m231122) HM
Milkhouse
The milkhouse was built about 1916 to cool milk from the Buckley's purebred Holstein cows. Milkcans were set in a tank with cool water pumped in by a windmill. Milk was shipped by train daily to sell in Chicago. Some of the milk . . . — — Map (db m286286) HM
The original Buckley Schoolhouse built on this site, used for classes 1850's-1922, was moved southwest 3 miles to use for farm storage and later torn down. This replica uses bricks from the original foundation along the front. Southern Lake County . . . — — Map (db m286228) HM
Dedicated 1905
In honor of those who served in the Civil,
Mexican, and Spanish-American Wars
and the War of 1812 by the Women of Tri-Creek. — — Map (db m307767) WM
