Community of
Argyle Park
Argyle RR Station
once along the Evanston Branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul once known as the Evanston & Lake Superior RR
Community of
High Ridge
1894 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
Community of
Henry Town
1891 Rascher's Altas Map
south of Rose Hill
The Community
of Henrytown
Once located on the edge of RoseHill Cemetery as early as 1862. The only reference I have for now is from 'History of Cook County, Illinois: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 1884' of a resident named Lawrence Baer.
no mention of Henry Town in this
Community of
Rose Hill
the Seven Mile House was located in the Rose Hill area
This tavern/lodge was over seven miles from the Chicago's original Court House building
text below - Chicago: its history & its builders
1894 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
An Editorial Piece
from 1880
How do I Spell it and from where?
Bownanville was then
located in Jefferson Township - west of Western Avenue
according to maps. The green represents Jefferson Township while the yellow is Lake View
This is one of the oldest communities to influence the old townships of Lake View and Jefferson. In fact, this community was founded in what was once Ridgeville Township (1850-1857). In 1857 that township was basically split in two.
Western Avenue was the border of both Lake View & Jefferson townships with the community of Bowmanville located west side of Western until the annexation of both townships to the City of Chicago. By 1930 the Community of Bowmanville would be located east of Western Avenue. Bowanville had enormonus influence over former townships by using Little Fort Road (Lincoln Avenue) as aroute to their Chicago markets for their green house products. Pre-European History to be Re-discovered
"There aren't many accounts of the prehistoric connection to Chicago especially for the city's Bowmanville neighborhood but for decades, neighbors have known of the area's prehistoric legacy.
"I was really fascinated to learn that our entire neighborhood had been a part of a native habitation," said 20-year Bowmanville resident Barry Kafka. "I’m frustrated that we don’t know more about it," Kafka said. Oral history in the neighborhood suggested that since the early 1900's, people had been digging up ancient artifacts in their backyards. But, unfortunately, history had never been properly recorded to help reconstruct the lives of humans who lived thousands of years ago in what is now modern Chicago." Read more ...
Bowmanville in Photos
The above aerial photograph showing farms, homes, streets, telephone poles, and open land where the L.A. Budlong Company, a first successful commercial greenhouse in Jefferson Township. The company at one time occupy 400 hundred acres of land. According the publication Hidden History of Ravenswood & Lake View by Patrick Butler "the workers were originally paid at the end of the day in silver dollars, known as 'Budlong Dollars' or simply 'Budlongs' ". Also, the book mentions that "by the turn of the 20th century, they had between eighteen to twenty greenhouses described by one visitor as a 'virtual village of glass'. Apparently, some greenhouses remained as late as 1980's.
Status of the School
in 1903
Walking along Devon Avenue
west of Western Avenue in 1914
photo - Jerri Walker - Forgotten Chicago on Facebook
on Facebook!
“This is Devon Avenue in 1914 looking east from about Claremont, just east of Western Ave. The people are from L to R my great aunt, my Mother, my grandmother, Uncle, and another grand aunt. They are walking from Angel Guardian /St Henry’s church (steeple barely visible in the background) back to a truck farm on the SW corner of Rockwell and Devon where my grandparents worked.
How Devon has changed!” – Calumet 412
An Adult Field Trip
in 1909
4800 North Lincoln Avenue
photo below - Chuckman Collection
a view of the intersection of Lincoln/Lawrence/Western at the edge of the District of Lake View - Bowmanville 1920's
Post Notes:
more about it
by The Edgewater Historical Society
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