Timeline
Arbor Vista area
Timeline
[Arbor Vista Subdivision]
SW corner of Section 31 Warren Township, Lake County, Illinois
Section 31; Township 45 North; Range 11; East of the Third Principal Meridian, State of Illinois
Absolute SW corner of Warren Township, Lake County, Illinois; USA
Legal: ROBERT BARTLETTS ARBOR VISTA
Tax Code Area: 08066 - WARREN TWP 066
Pre - 1818
Illinois River Potawatomi Indians until August 1829, when economic and resource pressures forced the tribe to sell much of their land in northern Illinois to the U.S. government for $12,000 cash, an additional $12,000 in goods, plus an annual delivery of 50 barrels of salt.
1818
1829
Waukegan established - named: Potawatomi: wakaigin (Fortress or Little Fort)
1835
Willard Jones (36) stakes a claim for a 160 acre homestead, built a log house on what is now known as Arbor Vista of Lot 31 Warren Township
Cook County established (included land now in Lake and McHenry County)
1836
1837
1839
Libertyville re-named Burlington
Burlington/Libertyville named county seat
Lake County established present day borders
1840
1841
Waukegan named county seat
Burlington re-named back to Libertyville
1842
7/2/1842 Willard Jones purchases 40 acres @ 1.25 acre for total of \$50.00
6/1/1842 Willard Jones purchases 187 acres \@1.25 acre for total of \$234.48
[Judge ]DeWitt Jones [born on Jones homestead in Arbor Vista]
1843
1847
[4 Jones children pass away due to scarlett fever]
Hainesville becomes incorporated
1848
1849
1850
1851
Lake and McHenry Plank Road is completed from Waukegan to Hainesville
1859
1860
Census
2 Jones children pass away due to scarlett fever
1861
American Civil War begins
1864
DeWitt Jones(22) enlists in Company D, 146th Illinois Infantry,
1865
American Civil War ends
DeWitt Jones was an escort for the President Lincoln funeral cortege
DeWitt Jones returns from Civil War
1870
1867
DeWitt Jones married Ella Burrows in Grayslake
1870
George Jones born to DeWitt and Ella
1872
Willard Jones (72) passes away
1872
Fred Chard (1872-1945) born / owned Arbor Vista / fire chief of Grayslake
1875
Ella Burrows Jones passes away
1877
Lake and McHenry Plank Road ceases operation
1879
1880
1886
Wisconsin Central railroad station in Grayslake completed
Grayslake platted as a subdivision
Fourth class post office established in Grayslake
1885
Orpha Jones owner of Arbor Vista 124 Acres
Jennie M Ford
1887
Willard Jones homestead destroyed by fire
Marcia Jones/wife of Willard (77) passes away
Jennie Jones Ford/daughter of Willard and her husband Warren Ford take possession of Jones Homestead
1890
1895
Grayslake incorporated as a village
Frame school house moved to Whitney Street and became village hall
1897
Electric lights started to be installed in business section
1898
Local phone service started
1899
Long distance phone service began
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad put in line
F.C. Wilbur Lumber Company burned
Grayslake Fire Department organized
1900
Grayslake had 416 residents
Census
1907
Fred Chard (124 acres) [1907 Atlas]
W.S. Hawthorn (36 acres ???)
1913
1916
DeWitt Jones (73) passes away
1918
Center Avenue (present day Lake Street) paved
1920
Grayslake had 736 residents
1925
Fred Dobe moves to Grayslake/Arbor Vista
1926
1930
1937
1939
1940
Census
Fred Dobe (69) tree expert/tree farm, Marie Dobe (72), Johanna (44)
1949
[Grayslake Outdoor Family Theater opens - owned by Fred Dobe]
1959
1960
1962
1965
A home owned by Mr. & Mrs. George Williams burned resulting in a total loss. It was later demolished.
1990
2007