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Diging Up Your Past, with Historian Anne Lunde

Our Guest Speaker, Anne Lunde, will speak on
Sunday, May 22, 2011 - Sunday, 2-4pm.

“Digging Into the Past” was developed as an introduction for local history researchers. Learn how to make sense of maps that pre-date modern coordinates, how the development of one early community interacts with another, and ways to uncover new information from familiar sources.  

   “Consider that Dutchman’s Point, the original name for the 1830s settlement which became the Village of Niles, was the first named settlement in this area,” Lunde notes. “Founding residents of what later became Norwood Park and Edison Park, and some from eastern Park Ridge, were first identified with this settlement before their own communities developed later in the 19th Century. Common roots run deep. People worshipped together, did business with each other, sent their children to the same school. Families merged by marriage. Until 1850 they were all part of the same single voting precinct from east of Sauganash west into Des Plaines.”     

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   Anne Lunde, long-time area resident, is an historian and archivist for the Norwood Park Historical Society, and has done extensive research on Chicago’s Northwest Side and in area suburbs near O’Hare Airport. She currently also serves on the Park Ridge Heritage Committee and was consulting historian for the Park Ridge City Centennial Steering Committee. She researched and designed the new History Wall at Norwood Crossing retirement center in the Norwood Park community.

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