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

  • Half Day Inn established

1847

  • [4 Jones children pass away due to scarlett fever]
  • Hainesville becomes incorporated

1848

1849

1850

  • Census

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

  • Census

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

  • Census

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

  • Census

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

per map / owners of Arbor Vista

  • 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

Leo DeMeyer establishes Grayslake Feed

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