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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,