Algonquin’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Algonquin. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Long before Europeans settled in Algonquin, the Potawatomi originally inhabited the land. Algonquin was the location of Indian burial mounds known in the 1800s as the Algonquin Mounds. By 1834 the first settler of Algonquin, Samuel Gillilan, came to the area from Virginia. Settlers Dr. Cornish, Dr. Plumleigh, Eli Henderson, Alex Dawson, and William Jackson arrived shortly thereafter. There was some dispute regarding the original name of Algonquin, and numerous other names were suggested including Denny's Ferry, Cornish Ferry, Cornishville, and Osceola. But Samuel Edwards suggested the name Algonquin and on December 23, 1847, the name Algonquin became official.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Algonquin’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Algonquin’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewVelieHillClimbingContestStickney, 1910: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Algonquin
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Algonquin, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as VelieHillClimbingContestStickney (1910) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.