Self-Guided-walking-tour-4Download College and Augusta Avenues comprise a large portion of the locally designed Ellwood Historic Neighborhood. The area began developing with the opening of Northern Illinois State Normal School (NIU) in the fall of...
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DeKalb-County-Spots-and-Tours-Downtown-odditiesDownload DeKalb Remembering Phineas Vaughan | DeKalb’s foremost Blacksmith was Phineas (Uncle Phin) Vaughan. His freestanding shop was located at 325 East Lincoln Highway. The building was solid stone,...
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Self-Guided-walking-tour-5Download 101 E. Lincoln HighwayMemorial Park. A two-story house stood here until the early 1900s, then for many decades a gas station was on the property. The City of Dekalb bought the property in the 1990s, moving the...
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DeKalb-Barbed-Wire-FactoriesDownload Barb Fence Company | 1875 – Located at 128-140 South Second Street, DeKalb. The former Illinois Historic Preservation Agency always considered this factory to be the world’s first barbed wire factory....
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DeKalb-County-Spots-and-Tours-Ellwood-Family-HomesDownload DeKalb 205 Pine Street, DeKalb | 1857. Well known since its historic preservation crisis in the late 1970s as Gurler House, it started life as an Ellwood Family home. Ellzey and Alida...
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DeKalb-County-Spots-and-Tours-Historical-Markers_combinedDownload Hinckley John Sebree Log Cabin | This granite marker from 1917 is located in Pioneer Park at Hinckley, on the west edge of town, on Routh 30. It was originally on railroad...
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DeKalb-County-Spots-and-Tours-Historic-Farm-HousesDownload Benjamin Gurler House | 1860. Just less than one mile west of South First Street on Furler Road. The road is the dividing line between DeKalb and Afton Townships. The two story center...
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Local author, Marti Brown, assembled her father’s scrapbooks and over 300 letters sent to family members during World War II and compiled these artifacts into a book entitled From Cornfield to Battlefield: A Young Farmer’s Journey Through World War...
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