On South Galena Trail Road at West Milledge Road (County Road 7), on the left when traveling south on South Galena Trail Road.
The Indians called this area Nanusha (buffalo). The first settlers arrived here in 1829 and six years later a village, St. Marion, was laid out. About 1840 the name was changed to Buffalo Grove and the village prospered until 1855 when the railroad . . . — — Map (db m208581) HM
Near South Galena Trail Road south of West Eagle Point Road (County Road 6), on the right when traveling south.
This free-standing, perpetual-burning lime kiln was used to produce lime mortar, a product widely utilized by the building industry. The area was known as Buffalo Grove after a thriving early settlement along the Galena Trail. The region retained . . . — — Map (db m208638) HM
On South Galena Trail Road, on the right when traveling north.
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Here on the Galena Trail, Isaac Chambers built a cabin used as a tavern
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John D. Stevenson, the first merchant had his store in a near-by cabin — — Map (db m209304) HM
On South Galena Trail Road south of West Eagle Point Road (County Road 6), on the right when traveling south.
Early in the Black Hawk War Indians concealed near this spot in Buffalo Grove, May 19, 1832, killed William Durley, a member of a six man detail carrying dispatches from Colonel James M. Strode at Galena to General Henry Atkinson at Dixon's Ferry. . . . — — Map (db m208585) HM
On North Franklin Avenue at West Locust Street, on the left when traveling north on North Franklin Avenue.
Abraham Lincoln was a guest in this house, August 15-17, 1856. His host was Zenas Aplington, founder of Polo. On Saturday, August 16, John D. Campbell and James W. Carpenter, who were law partners in Polo, joined Lincoln and Aplington in a drive by . . . — — Map (db m55803) HM
On West Eagle Point Road, 0.3 miles east of Brookville Road, on the left when traveling east.
In the pioneer village of Eagle Point, named because of an eagle's nest on a point of timber near here, Naaman Spencer, inventor of the gang plow, started manufacturing it here, 1868. Spencer, also was the first to use a steam engine, a Gates, . . . — — Map (db m131732) HM
On West Pines Road (County Road 6) at West Oregon Trail Road, on the right when traveling east on West Pines Road.
In 1825 Oliver W. Kellogg blazed a trail from Peoria to Galena which passed east of this site. On a spring day in the following year John Boles marked a shorter route near this point. The news of the Boles Trail spread and it became a heavily . . . — — Map (db m208467) HM
On U.S. 52 at West Henry Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 52.
In the early 1830’s pioneer traffic moving north from Peoria crowded primitive trails and forced a direct route to Galena. In 1833, Levi Warner’s state survey marked the Galena Road. It cut through this schoolyard. Private Abraham Lincoln passed . . . — — Map (db m55795) HM