


Peter Lutheran Church, a German Lutheran church, following in 1860. The first churches were Presbyterian (1856) and Methodist (1858), with St. The town developed religious institutions that reflected the origins of its citizens. Most were farmers, but they were joined by others who worked in Chicago, since Arlington Heights was an early commuter suburb. It incorporated as Arlington Heights in 1887, when its population numbered about 1,000. The little town at the depot slowly grew, acquiring a blacksmith, a cheese factory, a hardware store, and a hotel. By the late 1850s the area had become noted for its truck farms, sending dairy products as well as vegetables to Chicago on the railroad. John Klehm might serve as an example he was at first a potato farmer, supplying the Chicago market, and in 1856 began a nursery for cherry, apple, and pear trees, later moving into spruce, maple, and elm, and then flowers. The Nathaniel Moore House is on the National Register of Historic Places.īy 1850, the area had largely changed its ethnic composition, as many German farmers from Saxony had arrived during the 1840s. Dunton Avenue, named after William Dunton, is the village's base line that splits addresses east and west, with Campbell Street splitting north and south. In 1853, William Dunton, originally from Oswego, New York, persuaded the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad to make a stop here, and laid out a town called Dunton. The General Land Office began selling land here in 1835.

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