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Oaklawn Farm is a historic property in Wayne, Illinois. The farm was operated by the Dunham family, who successfully bred Percheron horses. The property features the chateauesque Dunham Castle , which was built by Mark Wentworth Dunham in 1880.
Mark W. Dunham was born in Wayne, Illinois on June 22, 1842, the son of Solomon Dunham (1791–1856). [2] The elder Dunham had emigrated from New York State in a covered wagon to settle on 400 acres of land in Illinois, where he strategically built roads, an inn, a general store, and a house in order to prosper from the construction of new railroad lines passing through the area.
Mark Dunham's horse farm, Oaklawn Farm, founded in Wayne in 1866, was one of the earliest Percheron breeding farms in the U.S.; Dunham is known as the “Father of the Percheron in North America”. During the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, a train from Chicago to Wayne brought guests to see the Percheron horses at the 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2 ...
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Location of Kane County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kane County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kane County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Amid the changing seasons, Peoria-area orchards and farms let you pick your own autumn produce, from apples to pumpkins to pears
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University of Illinois Experimental Dairy Farm Historic District (2 P) Pages in category "Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 256 total.