HISTORY
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Englanders came to the area of Deer Grove in 1835, and
others settled Plum Grove, Englishman's Grove and Highland
Grove, areas that had been inhabited by the Pottawatomies.
The Indian trails are still important routes now known
as Algonquin and Rand Roads. The township was formed
in 1850, and Harrison Cook, formerly of Palatine, New
York, proposed the name of Palatine. |
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The
settlement of the Village of Palatine really began with
the advent of the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad in 1853,
later the Chicago and North Western. The first depot was
built in 1855 between Brockway and Bothwell with the site
and lumber being donated by Joel Wood.
Joel
Wood owned the land north of Chicago Avenue (Palatine Road),
and Elisha Pratt owned the land south of the street and
moved his store into the Village. The area was a slough
filled with cattails and green water. Joel Wood surveyed
the Village into lots, blocks and streets in 1855. Mr. Thurston
built the first house at 19 S. Bothwell. In 1873 George
Clayson, a nurseryman, built the house at 224 E. Palatine
Road, which currently is a museum, the home of the Palatine
Historical Society, and on the National Register of Historic
Homes.
The
first building in Palatine used for a school was the Haase
house on Chicago Avenue. The first school built in the Village
about 1860 was located on Wood Street, between Benton and
Hale. Charles S. Cutting, the principal between 1875 and
1880, was responsible for the formation of Palatine High
School, housed in one room of the grade school on the second
floor.
The
town grew slowly and steadily until 1920 when the first
development on a large scale occurred. In 1925, farms were
selling for $400 an acre, a sewer system had just been completed,
all the streets had been or were being paved with reinforced
concrete, and elaborate street lighting had been installed.
The post-World War II housing boom began the change of Palatine
from a small village railroad town to the present-day bustling
suburb.
