On North Green Bay Road (Illinois Route 131) 0.2 miles north of Armour Drive, on the right when traveling south.
In 1837 William Dwyer, his wife Mary, and her brother, Dr. Richard Murphy, established a claim to the property on this site and created what was known as the Dwyer Settlement. The Dwyer homestead included a tavern and one of the three stage stops . . . — — Map (db m66619) HM
On Saint Johns Avenue at County Line Road, on the right when traveling south on Saint Johns Avenue.
This Indian Trail tree, at the northern boundary of Cook County, is the most noticeable one standing on a highway. There are eleven similarly bent trees in Cook County, pointing the direction of the Indian trails. The branch was bent and fastened to . . . — — Map (db m273960) HM
On Rockland Road (Illinois Route 176) 0.1 miles east of Energy Drive, on the right when traveling west.
On June 12, 1924, the largest train robbery in U.S. history occurred near here. Bandits boarded the train in Chicago and forced postal clerks to surrender sacks containing more than two-million dollars in securities and cash. Local police . . . — — Map (db m54066) HM
On Newhall Ranch Road (State Highway 126) at Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5), on the right when traveling east on Newhall Ranch Road.
The super highway of its day when opened in 1915, The Ridge Route, California’s first mountain highway, has been credited by some (for better or worse) as saving the state from being divided into two separate states. Constructed, graded, and paved . . . — — Map (db m121867) HM
Near Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
Bangs Lake and most of the other surrounding ponds and lakes in our region were born about 14,500 years ago when the Wisconsin ice sheet began its retreat to the east and northeast. Large chunks of ice broke off the back end of the melting, . . . — — Map (db m272329) HM
Near East Douglas Street (Illinois Route 75) at North State Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
The life-size bronze sculptures, "Lincoln and Douglas in Debate 1858," were unveiled on August 27, 1992, the 134th anniversary of the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. At that time, this statue was the only sculpture depicting . . . — — Map (db m233499) HM
On North Saint Mary's Road (County Route 19) 0.5 miles north of West Everett Road (County Route 40), on the right when traveling south.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson – Governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953, twice the Democratic Party nominee for president, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations – built this residence in 1938. Known as "The Farm," the house, outbuildings, and . . . — — Map (db m41247) HM
The schooner was found off Bailey's Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin. The rudder was brought up from Lake Michigan by Century Divers of Lake County, Illinois. It is estimated to be from about 1827. — — Map (db m131469) HM
On High Street east of Greenwood Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Joshua P. Young was the second proprietor of the American House, a hotel built in Blue Island in 1844 which had originally been constructed in 1836 in Liverpool, Indiana to house the Lake County courthouse and post office. Young later became a major . . . — — Map (db m297931) HM
Near Kilbourne Road north of Old Grand Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
From all indications, a main line of the Underground Railroad ran through Lake County from Illinois across the state line to Wisconsin. Several sites have been identified as stops in Gurnee, Ivanhoe, Millburn and Waukegan. Oral tradition indicates . . . — — Map (db m308050) HM
On Liberty Street (Illinois Route 176) at Main Street, on the right when traveling north on Liberty Street.
Erected to honor those of Wauconda Township, Lake County, Illinois, who answered their country's call and gave their services for the great cause of liberty
Alverson, Harry • Alverson, Ralph • Bangs, Andrew C. • Baseley, Harry • Baseley, Henry • . . . — — Map (db m272414) WM
On Sheridan Road (Illinois Route 137) near 10th Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company of Worcester, MA. established a wire mill – The Waukegan Works – east of this location along Lake Michigan. The land for its Illinois operation was purchased January 16, 1891, on the recommendation of its . . . — — Map (db m38184) HM
On Kilbourne Road north of Old Grand Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Amos Bennett, Lake County's first African American settler arrived in Gurnee in 1835. Amos and his family were also the first Blacks to settle in Delhi, New York around the year 1799. While in Gurnee, he owned a log cabin near Washington Street and . . . — — Map (db m308030) HM
On East 4th Street at South Charles Avenue, on the right when traveling west on East 4th Street.
Following the establishment of the 1897 Taopi Creamery at the future townsite of Colton, discussions began about the need for a farm-to-market railroad. Paul F. Sherman of Sioux Falls and John E. Colton, village founder, spearheaded a movement to . . . — — Map (db m186914) HM
Near Constitution Avenue north of East Lakeshore Drive, on the right when traveling west.
As James Hervey Ball explained in 1884, the native peoples "could not well have declined the inducement to have resorted here for council, pleasure, rest and food."
The French recorded the earliest historic groups in the area surrounding Cedar . . . — — Map (db m305417) HM
Near Ridge Road east of Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
37 fiberglass tulip structures, which were organized and made possible by the Munster Civic Foundation, are located around town. Indiana University Northwest student, Tyler Kaufman, designed the tulip structures. The tulips represented the first . . . — — Map (db m301768) HM
Near Schrage Avenue south of John Street, on the right when traveling south.
Henry Schrage (1844-1932) was born into one of the first families of Whiting. An entrepreneurial spirit, he learned a strong work ethic from his humble beginnings as a German immigrant. Upon returning home after serving in the Union Army in the . . . — — Map (db m256487) HM
Near Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) just west of Monroe Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
In 1912, there were approximately one million motor vehicles registered in the United States but few good roads. Most of the roads outside of urban areas were dirt that turned to mud when wet. Long-distance travel by car was still very much a . . . — — Map (db m162418) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
