Site of Absolem Wells Cabin - Chicago Heights, IL
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adgorn
N 41° 30.476 W 087° 38.483
16T E 446475 N 4595343
A boulder with a plaque marks the site were the cabin stood, now part of the Wilson Woods Forest Preserve.
Waymark Code: WMCWYB
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2011
Views: 3
More from earlychicago.com:
"The plaque reads: Site of Absalom Wells cabin, 1833, first settler, southern Cook County.
Wells, Absolem - earliest settler on Thorn Creek in southern Cook County; in 1833 he built his cabin and trading post on the west side of Chicago Road within what is now the Wilson Woods Forest Preserve; a boulder with an inscribed plaque marks the site. Wells came to the Chicago Heights area by way of Ohio, perhaps explaining the large grove of Ohio buckeye trees near the site of his cabin."
A marker for someone probably not often thought about these days. Near an historic intersection of the old Dixie and Lincoln Highways.
County: Cook
Historical Society: not listed
Dedication Date: not given
Location: directly opposite 13th Street and about one-eighth mile N of U.S. Highway 30
Website: [Web Link]
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