The story
Furnished with 1800s pieces and paired with an 1880 barn, the house is the oldest structure on the museum campus.
Everything that was here
- 1856–present
1856 FarmhouseOther
An 1856 farmhouse that outlived the farm and became the village's museum.
See the map in 1857 → - Date unknown · still open
Elk Grove Historical MuseumMuseum
A farmhouse, barn, schoolhouse, coop and privy telling Elk Grove Township's pre-suburban story.
Nearby history
Elk Grove Village Hall
901 Wellington Avenue · 271 m away
Seat of a village that was drawn on paper by a Texas homebuilder in the mid-1950s.
Busse Forest Elk Pasture
N Arlington Heights Road at E Higgins Road (Busse Forest Elk Pasture) · 3.5 km away
A captive elk herd descended from ten Yellowstone animals delivered by train in 1925.
Volkening Family Farm
201 South Plum Grove Road · 4.5 km away
A German immigrant homestead from the late 1800s.
Legoland Discovery Center
601 North Martingale Road · 4.5 km away
The first Legoland Discovery Center in the United States.
Woodfield Mall
5 Woodfield Mall · 5.2 km away
The largest mall in America on opening day, built on 191 acres of prairie farmland by a joint venture of Sears and A. Al
Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant
798 Algonquin Rd · 5.5 km away
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