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    Glenview

    By Beverly Roberts Dawson

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    Following the signing of the treaty of 1833, which required that local Potawatomi tribes relocate west of the Mississippi River, European settlers began to arrive in the area now called Glenview. Primarily of English and German origin, they established farms and trading posts. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 had a profound effect on the hamlet. Lumber from the forests of Wisconsin used to rebuild the city was moved from the north via rail. By 1872, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad laid the first set of tracks from Wisconsin to Chicago; the line brought prosperity to local residents. In 1899, the village was incorporated. The first mayor, Hugh Burnham, a nephew of Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, is credited with its name Glen View. The community evolved into a mosaic of truck farms, major industry, small businesses, country clubs, polo fields, entrepreneurs, and colorful characters. Glenview maintained its ambiance as a village of homes and gardens until the latter years of the 20th century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateMar 31, 2008
    ISBN9781439619117
    Glenview
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    Beverly Roberts Dawson

    Beverly Roberts Dawson, past president of the Glenview Area Historical Society and historian of the Glenview Hangar One Foundation, frequently writes and lectures about the history of Naval Air Station Glenview. Images contained in this book are from the collections of the Glenview Area Historical Society and the Glenview Hangar One Foundation. In addition, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel who served at Naval Air Station Glenview provided photographs from their own files.

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      I grew up in Glenview so this book basically leapt into my cart when I saw it at Costco (in Glenview, of course).I found it very interesting. I've always been intrigued by the history of my little hamlet north of Chicago and this book provides a lovely pictorial trip down Memory Lane.It was fun to see what familiar environs once looked like, to see urban legends confirmed and to catch glimpses of things I hadn't even imagined.These Images of America series are charming.

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    Glenview - Beverly Roberts Dawson

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    INTRODUCTION

    Our future rests on our past; this quotation from newspaperman Sydney J. Harris succinctly sums up a major reason for preserving history. The earliest records of exploration of the area that now includes the village of Glenview go back to the 17th century. Native Americans—tribes of the Potawatomi—were known to have occupied several villages in the area. What is less well known is just when the first European explorers paddled canoes up the west fork of the north branch of the Chicago River. A 1955 history by A. E. Gyllenhaal, respected writer, newspaper editor, amateur historian, and resident of Swedenborg Park, states that the French explorer Jean Nicolet was the first person to explore this region, about 1635. Nicolet’s journey began in 1634, following a route from Montreal, through the St. Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes to the Menominee River at Marinette, Wisconsin, then via the Wisconsin River, and finally into Illinois by way of the Des Plaines River. His party portaged its canoes to the south branch of the Chicago River to Lake Michigan. Nicolet’s diary noted Grosse Pointe (which he called Beauty’s Eyebrow), the current location of the Evanston’s Grosse Pointe Lighthouse. From there, the party went on to explore the north branch, with its various forks or tributaries.

    According to Gyllenhaal’s detailed account, Louis Jolliet and Fr. Jacques Marquette’s exploration followed Nicolet’s route in 1673. They paddled up the Chicago River south of what is now Golf Road but could not continue up the east fork due to ice. They were, however, able to travel up the west fork to what they called the Indian log bridge where today’s Waukegan Road crosses the river.

    Early visitors discovered a marshy, sometimes swampy terrain with prairie grass surrounding occasional groves of trees. On what high ground was to be found, Native Americans established trails on roads now named Milwaukee, Sunset Ridge, and Glenview. The Native Americans portaged their canoes between the Des Plaines River and Lake Michigan. The trails were lined by saplings bent to mark the way; very few of these trees exist today.

    Prior to the Treaty of 1833, which specified that Native Americans living in the region be relocated (most of them west of the Mississippi River), a number of European homesteaders settled around present-day Glenview. An acre of land cost $1.25 (by 1850, the price skyrocketed to about $13 per acre). Among these immigrants were John Dewes and his family; they arrived about 1825 and farmed their land for nearly 75 years. The property was purchased by the Glen View Golf and Polo Club in 1897; the Dewes family moved farther west to the hamlet of Glen View. Some other original settlers were veterans of the War of 1812; they were rewarded with land grants for their military service.

    Prior to the chartering of Northfield Township, the area had no identity of its own and was simply part of Cook County. Sgt. Joseph Adams mustered out of the army at Fort Dearborn and established a rudimentary trading post near the present intersection of Glenview and Waukegan Roads about 1833. His neighbors were Benjamin Toops and Dardenus Bishop, who purchased tracts of land nearby. They are the first documented residents of the future village of Glenview.

    When Northfield Township was established in 1850, it was divided into three districts: North Northfield (later Shermerville, now Northbrook), South Northfield (now Glenview), and West Northfield (now incorporated into Glenview). Northfield Township’s leaders were a supervisor, a town clerk, an assessor, a tax collector, a poormaster, two justices of the peace, two constables, and three highway commissioners. The highway commissioners apparently set to work at once, as a dirt road then called State Road (later Lake Street, then Glenview Road) was built about 1854. It extended from Milwaukee Avenue to the middle of present downtown Glenview. It was expanded east from Little Fort Trail (later Mill Street, then Waukegan Road) to Ridge Avenue in Wilmette in 1856.

    The South Northfield district was located upon the floodplain for the west fork of the north branch of the Chicago River. To this neighborhood came Hutchingses, Rugens, Appleyards, Sesterhenns, Reeds, Hoffmans, Heslingtons, Melzers, and Claveys. By 1840, the need for a school for their children was recognized, and a makeshift classroom was situated in a cooper’s (barrel maker’s) shop. Julia Grote was hired as the teacher; her salary was $1.50 per week. A post office, designated South Northfield, operated from 1853 to 1880. Another, named North Branch, was established in 1871. The name was changed to Oak Glen in 1878 and Glen View in 1895. Thus the district had two coexisting postal addresses for about nine years during the 1870s.

    As towns and villages developed, their perimeters did not strictly follow township boundaries. Today, while most of the village of Glenview lies within Northfield Township, portions are

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