Founder of the World's
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Politics • Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In Memory of
Members of the
Volunteer Fire Department
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Firemens Benevolent Association
Organized 1847
Chartered 1852
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This monument was
erected in 1864
to honor all the courageous
Volunteer Firefighters of Chicago
Rededicated October 7, 1979
Chicago Firefighters
Union No. 2
[Honor Roll]
Jacob Held 1867 • S. Cunningham 1867 • Geo. H. Rankin 1870 • G. W. Sherman 1871 • Joseph C. Sparr 1880 • Alexander McMonagle 1880 • William Wachter 1883 • John McLean 1887 • Jeremiah Weller 1887 • George Ernst 1890 • August D. Pattei 1893 • John Cleland 1898 • F. W. Taplin 1899 • Ernst Reinecker 1902 • James Maxwell 1904 • Oliver J. Kugelman 1984 • William R. Kotowicz 1991 • Daniel Vinson 1994 • Charles E. Gamble 2001
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Man-Made Features • Charity & Public Work • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Plainfield is reported to be the oldest community in Will County, situated along the DuPage River it quickly became a summer suburban vacation spot for much of northern Illinois. Before automobile travel on the Lincoln Highway became the preferred mode of transportation, interurban railroads were established such as the Aurora, Plainfield & Joliet Railroad. This electric rail line served to further boost Plainfield's own transportation system and connected the three communities.
To promote travel and encourage weekend travel to the area, the Aurora, Plainfield & Joliet Railroad opened Electric Park to the public in 1904. The fabulous park offered lavish gardens flanking the banks of the DuPage River, as well as athletic grounds, bandstands, dancing pavilions and the 5,000 seat auditorium featuring a large pipe organ. Cabins featuring electric, gas and water service were also available to the vacationer.
The Village of Plainfield remained easily accessible to Lincoln Highway travelers and continued to grow and prosper; developing into the county's fastest growing community at the time.
Throughout the nation parks that were accessible by interurban rail lines were a popular destination for weekend entertainment. Over time with the emergence of paved roads there was less need for interurban transportation. This caused financial hardship for the electric line and Electric Park closed in 1932.
While Traveling the Lincoln Highway...
• Lincoln Highway Interpretive Murals now in Creston, DeKalb and Rochelle with forty more planned along the highway.
• Lincoln Highway Interpretive Exhibit is located in the Dixon Welcome Center.
• Lincoln Highway's First Concrete Mile, the Seedling Mile, is located in Malta.
• Interactive Kiosk in Aurora, check web site for location.
Check the web site for locations of the Lincoln Highway Traveling Exhibit.
www.drivelincolnhighway.com
The Interpretive Gazebo Project was partially funded through a National Scenic Byway Grant from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), with support from the Village of Plainfield. The project was coordinated by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition, the management agency for the Illinois Lincoln Highway National Scenic Byway. Grant funds were provided to tell the history and heritage of the Lincoln Highway in Illinois and stories of our corridor communities.
Images provided by Debra Olsen
(Railroads & Streetcars • Entertainment • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Erected by Henry Graves,
son of Dexter Graves, one of the pioneers of Chicago. Dexter Graves brought the first colony to Chicago, consisting of thirteen families arriving here July 15th, 1831 from Ashtabula, Ohio, on the schooner Telegraph and father and son remained citizens of Chicago till their death.
This lot contains the remains of
Dexter Graves, died April 29th 1844
aged fifty-five years
His wife Olive Graves, died July 30th, 1849
aged fifty-eight years and five months
Their children
Lucy, died January 24th, 1844
aged eighteen years and ten months
Emiline, died February 9th, 1844
aged eight years and nine months
Loring, died September 11th, 1852
aged thirty-eight years and ten months
and thirteen days, and
Henry Graves, died October 3, 1907
aged eighty-six years and one month
and twenty-four days
Clementine, wife of Henry Graves
died February 24th 1881
aged seventy-three years and four months
(Settlements & Settlers • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In 1935 a seedling from the Emancipation Oak was planted at Booker T. Washington Elementary School.
Site of Montgomery Lodge R.A.M.
Chartered 1791; hall built 1806 first floor was early village school.
This building of handmade bricks was constructed in 1856 to serve as the Fontenelle Bank. During the financial Panic of 1857 the Fontenelle Bank failed as did most of the other poorly backed wildcat banks in the Nebraska Territory.
La Crosse became the junction of the Atlantic and Danville Railway and the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1900. Surveyed as early as 1748, the area was known as Piney Pond by 1767, for a body of water that no longer exists. When a post office was established here in 1890, the region was known as La Crosse. The Virginia General Assembly incorporated the town of La Crosse on 15 February 1901. Around the railroad tracks, a business district, which included two depots, a bank, and a several stores, then prospered. The rail tracks were removed by 1990.
During the first two decades of this century the Keane Wonder Mine was the scene of major investment and development. The products of this labor were the riches - gold and silver.
These natural hot-springs are notable for their curative qualities. They were nationally acclaimed by President Ulysses S. Grant when he visited them in 1879.
A community of mills, warehouses, homes and stores sprang up with the construction of the Atlantic and Danville Railway in the 1890s. A combination freight and passenger station was located at Brodnax shown here in 1948. Bales of cotton, timber and other commodities shipped from Brodnax by rail until the 1950s. An abundance of cucumbers and peaches grown nearby were graded, packed and shipped from the town. One of the old grading stations is located at the Whitby Produce market which continues to provide an outlet for local produce.
Seven-tenths of a mile east of this marker was Geiger's Station, the largest station on the Geiger Grade Toll Road, the main thoroughfare between the Comstock Lode and the ranches of the Truckee Meadows. Located at the site were a toll house, three blacksmith shops, three barns, several corrals and an inn named Magnolia House.
On this site on July 4, 1910, Reno hosted "The Fight of the Century," a heavyweight championship boxing match between John Arthur "Jack" Johnson, the black title holder, and James J. "Jim" Jeffries, a former champion seeking to regain the title he had vacated in 1904. Jeffries had refereed a previous championship bout between Marvin Hart and Jack Root at this site on July 3, 1905, but the promotion of the ex-champion as "The Great White Hope" focused world-wide attention on his 1910 contest with the talented Johnson, known as the "Galveston Giant.". Gamblers had their money on Jeffries, but Johnson easily handled his opponent and Jeffries' trainers called the fight in the fifteenth round to save their man from the disgrace of a knockout.
Washington J. Marsh built this house in 1877. Myron C. Lake, regarded as a founder of Reno, purchased it in 1879, and ownership passed to his divorced wife, Jan, in 1881. This Italianate-style house has been moved twice and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Gold Bug stamp mill was built in the 1880s in the Tahoe National Forest. The Gold Bug Mine, one of many smaller hardrock mines located throughout the Mother Lode, was established to protect the ownership of the main quartz vein of the Eagle Bird Mine. This was the result of the 1878 mining law which allowed the mine to follow the vein to its apex. In association with the U.S. Forest Service, the mill was removed in 1996 for reconstruction at this site by the members of Auburn Parlor No. 59, Native Sons of the Golden West.
Until about 1967, the U.S. Postal Service used the railroads to handle mail on designated routes. The mail was handled in special railroad cars usually moved on passenger trains, designated as Railway Post Office (RPO) cars. The RPOs were actually post offices on rails and staffed by postal employees. Mail was sorted en route on the moving train. Sorted mail pouches were delivered to stations when the train made a stop or thrown off as the train passed.
This is the former site of
This cast iron obelisk was one of only four such monuments set by Allexey Von Schmidt during his survey of the California Nevada boundary in 1872-73. It was intended to mark a point on the 120th meridian, the border line between the two states north of Lake Tahoe. In addition to these four monuments Von Schmidt set stone mounded mile posts along the entire 612 mile boundary from Oregon to the Colorado River.
The Henness Pass Road was a major immigrant trail from the Truckee Meadows to the California gold fields. In the 1850's it was improved and became a toll road. In 1860 Felix O'Neil built a bridge over the Truckee River, east of this place and near the existing bridge. His stage stop was known as O'Neil's Station. For a time, Verdi was known as O'Neil's Crossing.
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed synonymous with racing. All modem Thoroughbreds trace back to three stallions imported into England from the Middle East in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. English Thoroughbreds were imported into North America starting in 1730. Diomed, brought to Virginia in 1798, significantly impacted American Thoroughbred breeding, mainly through his son, Sir Archy.
