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The endowment from Adams completely supported the facility until 1923, when Wheaton provided additional funds. The initial book purchase by Adams exceeded 2,700 books. The DuPage County Historical Society purchased the Adams Memorial building in 1965 and transferred ownership to the county. It re-opened as the DuPage County Historical Museum in ...
Location of DuPage County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in DuPage County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Central Park (1868) – Former site of county courthouse; 221 West Jefferson (c. 1870) Dr. Truitt House (c. 1917) – Truitt practiced medicine for over 50 years and helped establish the city hospital; Kreger Family House (c. 1860) Nichols Library (1898) – Designed by Mifflin E. Bell [6] First Congregational Church (1906) [7]
The Naper families and five other families settled in the area, first known as Naper's Settlement, which later would become a part of DuPage County. Joseph Naper platted the town of Naperville, surveying the property and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives for the first time in 1836.
DuPage County (/ d uː ˈ p eɪ dʒ / doo-PAYJ) is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the population was 932,877, making it Illinois' second-most populous county .
Naper Settlement is an outdoor history museum that offers numerous other large special events. From 1982 until 2019, this included Civil War Days, a two-day reenactment, where the settlement was converted into a large encampment and more than 300 actors and actresses at a time re-enacted historical life and battles.
Bloomingdale is one of the earliest villages settled in what is now DuPage County. The Meacham family settled here in 1833, and by the end of the following year, 12 to 15 families had settled in the locality. It was originally named Meacham's Grove. [3] The community was served by the Chicago-Galena Highway, modern day Lake Street.
Schaumburg (/ ˈ ʃ ɔː m b ɜːr ɡ / SHAWM-burg) is a village in Cook and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.Per the 2020 census, the population was 78,723, making Schaumburg the most populous incorporated village in the United States. [3]