Indian Days in DuPage County (3.7064)

Date: 1966
Creator: Gallo, Gene
Type: Map
Description:Map shows trails, Indian settlements, pioneer cabins (Scott and Naper) and events. Sidebars describe tribes and chiefs (with drawings).
Extent: 1 sheet

Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Early Settlers Brought Roses (3.19507)

Date: mid 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes locations of sites where roses were obtained for the Old-Fashioned Rose Garden.

Header [framed by illustrations of rose bushes, one red and one pink]: Early Settlers Brought ROSES from the East often in covered wagons

Text and illustrations from top to bottom:

• [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record is in our Old-Fashioned Rose Garden / When this garden was started plants were obtained from old settlers near the Arboretum.
• THREE OLD-TIMERS: [Illustration of three types of roses, from left to right]
  • Harrison's Yellow
  • moss rose
  • Cabbage rose
• These three and other old-time roses were obtained from:
  • 1. The Jones Homestead in Warrenville, to which the Jones family came from New York State in 1845 in a covered wagon.
  • 2. The old Peaslee home in Naperville, to which the Peaslee family came, from West Virginia, 60 years ago.
  • 3. The Blanchard home in Wheaton. The roses were moved from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Galseburg, Illinois; then from Galesburg to Wheaton.
  • 4. The property given by President Jonathan Blanchard, first president of Wheaton College, in 1890, to his daughter.
  • 5. The oldest house in Wheaton, (corner of Naperville Rd. and Roosevelt) built by Warren Wheaton, who came from Connecticut in 1837, and built the house in 1847.
  • and others 

Extent: 1 sheet

The pioneer history of Illinois : containing the discovery, in 1673, and the history of the country to the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, when the state government was organized (3.37847)

Date: 1852
Creator: Reynolds, John, 1788-1865
Type: Book
Extent: 348 pages ; 17 cm