Description On a May evening in 1832, a solitary 50-year-old man on horseback rode toward an oak Grove that rose majestically from the quiet Illinois prairie.
He could hardly have imagined the remarkable development of the bucolic.
In that singular act, Pierce Downer founded the town that would bear his name: Downers Grove, Illinois.
Stopping at this beautiful site, the man bent a sapling to mark his claim to the rich Illinois farmland that would be his for the settling.
Description On a May evening in 1832, a solitary 50-year-old man on horseback rode toward an oak Grove that rose majestically from the quiet Illinois prairie