Related Records

1. Identifying information cards used with picture of John and Catherine Cloes, son Ben and family homestead and brickyard in a Lake Bluff exhibition undated. The brickyard started in 1885 by Catherine and run by Mr. Ostrander.

   Cloes Family - notes for photos about

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2. 163 Years and Counting - This issue dives into the Lake Bluff Post Office's long history.

   163 Years and Counting

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3. 666 Mawman - 666 Mawman Built in 1855 by Henry Ostrander, 666 Mawman was used to house and feed the railroad construction workers for the Chicago Milwaukee Railroad. The house was later owned by Edward and Margaret Mawman. The house is often referred to as the Henry Ostrander Rooming House.

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4. 666 Mawman - 666 Mawman, home of Henry Ostrander. This house was at one time a railroad facility

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5. 666 Mawman - 666 Mawman, home of Henry Ostrander. This house was at one time a railroad facility

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6. 666 Mawman Avenue - An Architectural and Historic Survey of the Camp Meeting Area of Lake Bluff that was completed in 1998. Additional information about the property is available at the Lake Bluff History Museum. 666 Mawman Avenue Also included are Multiple Listing Sheets (MLS)

   666 Mawman Avenue

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7. A letter to Lieb Grost - An unsigned letter to Lieb Grost of North Avenue dated February 4, 1973 and likely written by Elmer Vliet. The is in response to an article in the Lake Bluff Review written by Susan Dart, where Vliet provides clarification and asks Grost for information on the Cloes brickyard. 666 Maple Avenue 230 East North Avenue

   A letter to Lieb Grost

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8. Cloes family from Germany to Lake Bluff - Article on early settlers of Lake Bluff including a picture of Cloes family home, 666 Maple Avenue. Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Mail Advertiser April 16, 1981

   Cloes family from Germany to Lake Bluff

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9. Correspondence on Ostrander Family - Long correspondence between Elmer Vliet and Daniel DeNoyelles, senior geneologist at the Rockland County Historical Society in New York, as well as Wilfred Talman and the Holland Society of New York, regarding the ancestry of the Ostrander Family. Henry Ostrander came to Lake County in 1842, where he started a brick-making business and founded the community of Rockland, which eventually became Lake Bluff. Notes by Elmer Vliet pertaining to Ostrander Family. Information taken from book De Halne Maem referring to Rockland County, NY. Account of development of Rockland, undated.

   Lake Bluff Women's Club

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10. From Summer Resort To Suburb; Village Remembers Methodist Heritage; Confirmation Class of 1965; Original Grace Methodist Church; Grace Methodist changes title and celebrates 80th anniversary; Historical Pageant at the Grace Methodist Church - Six newspaper articles published between 1963 and 1968. All of the articles focus on Grace Methodist Church.

    From Summer Resort To Suburb

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11. Henry Ostrander - Several pages of typed notes and letters from Elmer Vliet on Henry Ostrander and family, who settled in Lake Bluff, including information about land ownership, the railroad and Matthew Coe and Walter Gurnee.

    Henry Ostrander

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12. Lizzie Cloes Hole - A Xerox retyped letter from Lizzie Cloes Hole written to a Lake Bluff teacher at the time when students were asked to write local history during the Illinois Centennial. Hole talks about her father John Cloes being a blacksmith, her mother Catherine rented part of her farm for a brickyard to a Mr. Crawford and later run by Henry Ostrander and then her brother Ben Cloes. "This was the first brickyard north of Chicago. Hole details more about her family and her Sunday School.

    Lizzie Cloes Hole

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13. Made in Lake Bluff - Practical and whimsical products and inventions made in Lake Bluff.

    Made In Lake Bluff

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