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On August 5, 1851, a group of 17 Baptists met in a school house on the corner of Maple Avenue and Dunham Road to organize the Baptist congregation. Services were […]

This oil on canvas mural in the was commissioned by the Federal Art Project (FAP), a part of the New Deal Era arts project established by then President Franklin D.

Pierce Downer, who arrived in 1832, was the village’s first settler. This well, recognized as a Historic Site in 2013,  was across from the Downer home, is one of two

Formerly called Grove Lake, Prince Pond is one of the oldest recreation areas in Downers Grove. E.H. Prince, who developed the area in the 1890s, improved the pond (calling it

Home to schools for over 100 years, the first schoolhouse on this site was a two-room brick building erected in 1867. A ten-year course of instruction was adopted in 1876,