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DuPage County, Illinois
History and Genealogy
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DuPage County
ILGenWeb
Thank you for visiting this
DuPage County history and genealogy site!
Enjoy your visit, and be sure to bookmark this
site. Your contributions are
welcome. I am Pat Sabin, and I have been
an active volunteer and County Coordinator with
the USGenWeb Project since 1999. My
interest in DuPage County is through my New
England ancestors who arrived in
Naperville beginning in 1833, and my East
Tennessee relatives who arrived in the 1860s and
70s. This site has been in existence since
1999, but we just joined the ILGenWeb as an
official county site. Please be
patient as I reorganize, redecorate, and
check links! If you have a wide screen
monitor, you may see the left page border
repeated on the right. If you find this
distracting, you may view this page
without the border background.
Pat
Sabin The USGenWeb Project began in 1996 with a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. The Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free access for everyone. Read more about the History of the USGenWeb Project. Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all of those pages, as well.Early History of DuPage County In the early days the Illiniwek, and later the Miami, Iroquois, Sak, Fox , Kickapoo and Pottawatomi Indians lived in this area, rich in fish, game and vegetation. In 1673 Father Jacques Marquette and French explorer Louis Joliet came to the area, following the Illinois and DesPlaines rivers from the Mississippi. Trappers and traders came throughout the 1700s and early 1800s, the best known being a Frenchman by the name of DuPage. In 1800 he settled where the east and west branches of the river join. The first permanent settlement was made in the fall of 1830 and the spring of 1831. Read more about the History of DuPage County in excerpts from "A History of the County of Du Page, Illinois," 1857.
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