Citizens built first station here, he says
- Publication
- Wilmette Life, 12 Oct 1923, p. 14
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- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Notes
- Letter to Wilmette Life from John P. Gage, Wilmette pioneer, then of Vineland, New Jersey, summarized; found evidence that old land owners of Wilmette built first Northwestern railroad station while looking at his father's receipts for money paid toward the cost of the depot; receipts signed by H.G. Drury and Alexander McDaniel (1874); Mr. Gage left Wilmette in his 90s; family owned land in Wilmette and what is now Hubbard Woods; visited Wilmette year before to investigate his properties in the village; residents had difficulty getting Northwestern line to stop in Wilmette; built a depot so they'd have to stop
- Date of Publication
- 12 Oct 1923
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Drury, H. G. ; Gage, John ; McDaniel, Alexander
- Corporate Name(s)
- Northwestern Railroad
- Local identifier
- Wilmette.News.81687
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to United States law. No restrictions on use.
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