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ROUND LAKE HISTORY Grocery store. Originally Esmond & Kirkpatrick. Changed to Rosing Bros. An early shuttle-bus-type business. This wagon picked up people from the railroad station and take them to George Renehan’s Round Lake Hotel. One-cell jail and the Schumacher Hotel. The hotel still exists across the street from where the blacksmith was. This nine-hole golf course used to be on the east side of Fairfield in the 1930s. 6 The Village of Round Lake owes its being and, to a large extent, its growth, to the far-sighted efforts of Amarias M. White and a small group of men who foresaw the importance of rail transportation. It was White who convinced railroad officials to locate a depot in Round Lake and who gave the land for that purpose. The Lake, Cook and McHenry Counties Railway Company was formed in 1899 to build a branch of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, from Libertyville to Janesville, Wisc. Initially, a station was planned for Hainesville. Hainesville was already a thriving village and the oldest in Lake County. As the track neared the town, A.C. Goodnow, head of the company and later a vice president of the Milwaukee Road, began bargaining with George B. Battershall, Hainesville merchant and owner of much of the land in that area. Battershall set a high price on his land. A boxcar was set up beside the tracks in Hainesville to provide a temporary headquarters for the telegrapher, but Battershall was a stubborn man and refused to lower his price. At this time, White offered the railroad a free site for the station if they would locate it in what is now Round Lake. Goodnow accepted the offer on the condition that White would have several streets laid leading to the station. White agreed to do this, and soon tents dotted the right-of-way as men brought the tracks through to Round Lake. The line was finished and deeded to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul on July 1, 1901. The following month, White filed the original plat of the village at the Lake County Court House. This plat showed Railroad Avenue at the north, along the tracks Cedar Lake as the east boundary and the Nippersink Avenue the south. In honor of the railroad official, White ROUND LAKE CENTENNIAL 1908-2008 named the west boundary after Goodnow and presented him with a choice lot at the corner of Nippersink and Cedar Lake. Avilon Avenue bisected the village, and two alleys provided further access. A Mr. Hooper was the station agent. At that time, the only building in the village was the one on the corner of Railroad and Cedar Lake avenues. It was a general store and post office run by Wilton J. Esmond and George B. Kirkpatrick. (Kirkpatrick was named the first postmaster on November 16, 1901.) Naomi Vasey (McCanless) was clerk at the general store when news of President McKinley’s assassination came over the wires on September 6, 1901. Later, Henry Gieske, then a Mr. Weber, sold general merchandise, groceries and meats from the same building. Frank Drummond purchased the business, and he was in the process of moving into the store, from his previous shop a block away, when the Armistice was declared November 11, 1918. Jubilant people stopped what they were doing, and all moving came to a halt. Stock was covered and left on the sidewalk to be moved another day. In 1908, people were talking about Admiral Peary’s expedition to the North Pole. That summer, Round Lake residents began thinking about politics and considering that desirability of incorporating the village in order to channel its rapid growth. Everyone seemed to approve of the idea except the farmers, who didn’t want to have to pay taxes to a village government. However, to comply with the area population regulations set by the county, it was necessary to have not only the farmers’ vote but also to have the area of their farms included in the village limits. That summer, Amarias White, the Amann brothers, Will Rosing, A. J. (Del) Smith, John Hart (whose father, Henry, owned one of the largest farms) and others went a<strong>round</strong> the countryside trying to convince their
neighbors that incorporation was a good and necessary thing for the community. The farmers were not easily convinced. Eventually, however, the coalition and the farmers reached an agreement. The farmers signed the petition to support an election on the condition that they could withdraw immediately after the village was incorporated. White and his cohorts presented the petition to the Honorable D.L. Jones, judge of the court at Waukegan, on November 19, 1908. Judge Jones found everything in order and called for an election to be held at Paddock’s Hardware Store on December 9, 1908, Jones appointed John Hart, Will Rosing and Walter White, a local auctioneer, as judges of the election. Notices of the election were posted in prominent places in the village: at the depot, at Gilbert school, in front of the creamery, at Rosing Brothers Store (the Rosings had bought out Kirkpatrick and Esmond) and at the entrance to the Fort Hill cemetery. Between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., 66 people voted: 51 ‘for’ and 15 ‘against’ incorporating the village. Claus Junge, Sr. was appointed village president. ROUND LAKE BEACH && COUNSELING COUNSELING THERAPY THERAPY Catherine Arce-Mendez, PhD Family & Marital Counseling Child & Teen Counseling Evening & Weekend Hours Psychological Evaluations Hablamos Español DrArce@TheTalkingDr.com ROUND LAKE An election for village officials was set for January 7, 1909. At the January election, only 29 people voted. Amarias White was unanimously chosen village president. For police magistrate, there is some discrepancy as to whether Phillip Flary or W. A. McClintock was elected. George E. Richardson was named village clerk; W. A. Rosing was named treasurer. The trustees were Walter White, S.C. Litwiler, Edward Hendee, Martin Thelen, Edward Luby and Frank Amann. They held the first board meeting on February 6, 1909, and the first item on the agenda was the 14 residents petitioning for the disconnection of their property from the village. True to their word, the board allowed this, and the petition was filed with the county. Those who sought disconnection were Sherman C. and Simon A. Davis, Daniel Wightman, Harrison Gilbert, W. E. Renehan, C. B. Coombs, C. M. Cleveland, Mary Dutzler, Hener Hart, Josephine A. Hendee, Mary A. Litwiler, Charles Tucker, M. E. Huson and William Wilson. The actual disconnection was delayed because the territory had to be described again due to an error of the attorney or his stenographer. 847.791.6049 36735 N. Rte 83, C Lake Villa (Next to Round Lake Beach Chiropractic) CORNER OF FAIRFIELD RD. & 134 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE VILLAGE OF ROUND LAKE ® SM ROUND LAKE CENTENNIAL 1908-2008 Ben Peterkort’s drug Store and Ice Cream Parlor Fox Lake - Round Lake Area Rotary Club Dedicated To Humanitarian Service And Fellowship In Our <strong>Communities</strong> And The World SERVICE Above Self For further information call: 847-587-2315 ANCEL GLINK MEANS LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW ANCEL, GLINK, DIAMOND, BUSH, DICIANNI & KRAFTHEFER, P.C. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING PUBLIC ENTITIES AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT ILLINOIS SINCE 1931 CHICAGO NAPERVILLE CRYSTAL LAKE WAUKEGAN PHONE 312-782-7606 VISIT WWW.ANCELGLINK.COM TO REQUEST OUR QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER VIA EMAIL 7
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