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The ditching and draining of the Graue Mill farmstead was typical of German-American settlement patterns in the Midwest in the 1840s and 1850s, as the thrifty German emigrants found assets in tracts of land that had been left behind by earlier, English-speaking frontiersmen and women. Graue could not build his entire mill from onsite materials.
It has been rumored that Bonnie and Clyde used a house in Grove City as a hideout while running from the law. The house still stands today, however, it is in very poor condition. The Grove City Methodist Cemetery is located in Mount Auburn Township. [2] Frank P. Sadler (1872–1931), Illinois state senator and lawyer, lived on a farm near Grove ...
The Manske–Niemann Farm is a historic 462-acre (187 ha) farm complex located at 13 Franks Lane near Litchfield, Illinois. The farm was most likely established in the 1850s and was purchased by German immigrant Michael Manske in 1863. Manske and his family developed and expanded the farm in three main stages.
The men were put to work by the Illinois Canning Company, Stokely Van Camp, Chanute Air Force Base, and by area farmers around Hoopeston, Rossville, Milford and other areas in Vermilion County. [2] German prisoners of war were used in the Hoopeston labor force for two years, from April to November 1944 and 1945.
The German name, Fachhallenhaus, is a regional variation of the term Hallenhaus ("hall house", sometimes qualified as the "Low Saxon hall house").In the academic definition of this type of house the word Fach does not refer to the Fachwerk or "timber-framing" of the walls, but to the large Gefach or "bay" between two pairs of the wooden posts (Ständer) supporting the ceiling of the hall and ...
Tom Candy Ponting (1824-1916), cattleman who drove the first herd of cattle from Texas to New York City; Frank P. Sadler (1872–1931), Illinois state senator and lawyer, lived on a farm near Grove City. John Wesley Fribley (1906–2002), state senate (1934–1952), born in Pana; Yvonne Craig (1937–2015) was born in Taylorville, Illinois.
Ridott Township is located in Stephenson County, Illinois, USA. At the 2010 census, its population was 1,451 and it contained 612 housing units. [2] The villages of Ridott and German Valley are located in this township. Ridott Township was named for an early settler. [3]
Not long after, the land south of Boschome Farms was subdivided as Long Grove Valley. Unit I was approved September 16, 1955, Unit 2 on February 1, 1957, and Unit 3 on June 20, 1957. Brickman Builders