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The Sycamore Historic District is a meandering area encompassing 99 acres (400,000 m 2) of the land in and around the downtown of the DeKalb County, Illinois county seat, Sycamore. The area includes historic buildings and a number of historical and Victorian homes.
Fernando Agustín Vélaz de Medrano y Bracamonte y Dávila (23 December 1742, London, England – 22 November 1791, near the Cape of Good Hope), 4th Marquess of Tabuérniga, 15th Marquess of Cañete, 6th Marquess of Fuente el Sol, 8th Marquess of Navamorcuende, 15th Lord of Montalbo, and a Grandee of Spain, was a Spanish nobleman from the House of Medrano, an aristocrat, military officer, and ...
Willard was a prominent Sycamore mason and builder. He was responsible for the construction of several of the historic district's other notable buildings, including the St. Peter's Episcopal Church as well as the Old Congregational Church (now Sycamore Baptist Church). [8] Willard arrived in Sycamore in 1843, a time when the city had just 18 ...
The North Grove School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located at 26745 Brickville Road northwest of Sycamore, Illinois. Swedish immigrants built the school in 1878; while it was originally a Lutheran school, it became part of the DeKalb County public school system two years later. The school served area students in the first through eighth ...
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A 1791 map of the roads and inland navigation of Pennsylvania, and part of the adjacent states based upon the river surveys in 1790 and 1791 A 1792 map of a proposed route for the summit canal based upon Brindley's survey of 1791 An 1816 map of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania showing 1794 Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation company summit crossing construction with its highlighted in red An ...
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Macomb's Purchase is a large historical area of northern New York in the United States purchased from the state in 1791 by Alexander Macomb, a merchant who had become wealthy during the American Revolutionary War. He acted as a land speculator, selling off portions of this land.