Historical Marker Series

Illinois: Illinois State Historical Society

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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM18K5_goodrich-homestead_Barrington-IL.html
In 1843 Ira C. Goodrich purchased this land from the United States Government. As an early settler to McHenry County, Goodrich founded the local school system, served as director and was road master. Farmsteads like this established by the early settlers se…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM18SW_david-haeger-school-and-cemetery_Barrington-IL.html
This former school, now a residence, and cemetery were named for the David Haeger family, from Germany, who settled in this part of McHenry County. This area was the boyhood home of David Henry Haeger, the eldest son of the Haeger children, who founded the …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19BX_the-green-bay-trail_Winnetka-IL.html
One branch of the Green Bay Trail traversed this region. Originally an Indian trail, after 1816 the route connected Fort Dearborn at Chicago with Fort Howard at Green Bay. Couriers faced hunger, cold and Indians to carry dispatches on a round trip which too…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19BY_the-dwyer-settlement-in-lake-county-illinois_Lake-Bluff-IL.html
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 along the …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1A6V_battle-of-fort-dearborn_Chicago-IL.html
From roughly 1620 to 1820 the territory of the Potawatomi extended from what is now Green Bay Wisconsin, to Detroit Michigan, and included the Chicago area. In 1803 the United States Government built Fort Dearborn at what today is Michigan Avenue and Wacker…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1CKC_old-stone-arch-bridge_Marshall-IL.html
This Bridge was completed by Army Engineers sometime between 1834 and 1837 as part of the Old National Road, between Cumberland, Maryland and Vandalia, Illinois, was authorized by the enabling act of 1803 and was the Nation's first federally financed highwa…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1DDT_the-de-soto-house_Galena-IL.html
Opened in April, 1855, the five-story, 240 room De Soto House was "the largest and most luxurious hotel in the West." Abraham Lincoln spoke from its balcony in 1856 and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. Ulysses S. Grant maintained his 1868 presidential campaign h…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1G64_ruins-of-first-state-prison-in-illinois_Alton-IL.html
Ruins of first state prison in Illinois. Built in 1830-31. Unsanitary conditions aroused persistent criticism from Dorothea Dix, pioneer in prison reform. All inmates were transferred to Joliet prior to 1860. During the Civil War many Confederate prisoners …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1G6S_welcome-to-illinois_Hebron-IL.html
In 1673 Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette explored the Illinois Country for France. By the 1763 treaty ending the French and Indian War, this area passed to England. During the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark's men captured it for the Comm…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1G6U_mchenry-county-first-couthouse_McHenry-IL.html
McHenry County's first commissioners met in this building on August 5th, 1840. The original structure was built on the Court Street side of the public square, now Veterans Memorial Park, as McHenry County's first courthouse. McHenry County split from Coo…
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