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
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
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
