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Grand Detour, IL - History
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Welcome to the Grand Detour Home page. The Grand Detour Home page provides as much information as possible on Grand Detour. Knowing Grand Detour’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Grand Detour’s Home page, you will also find Grand Detour’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Grand Detour has a population of 351. 53.3% of Grand Detour’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.7 are female. 46.3% of Grand Detour is married and 93.4% own their own home. Household median income in Grand Detour is $67,976, and the individual median income is $37,917. Grand Detour’s Ethnic is the following: White(72.9%), Hispanic(25.6%), Multiple(23.9%), Black(3.1%).
Grand Detour was founded in 1835 by Leonard Andrus (1805–1867) of Vermont. In 1836 Andrus welcomed his friend and fellow Vermont native John Deere to the town, where Deere built a house and established a forge. Deere manufactured pitchforks and shovels, and in 1837 he invented the first successful steel plow.
The first was sold in 1838.The John Deere Historic Site in Grand Detour is operated by the John Deere Company. The John Deere House and Shop is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; it joined that list in 1966, the year the Register was established. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.The village soon grew to include a dam, race and sawmill, a flour mill and several stores.In 1847, Rev.
Abraham Joseph Warner established an Episcopal parish in Grand Detour, then regarded as one of the most important settlements in the region. Construction began on St. Peter's Episcopal Church in 1849, and the building was completed in 1850. Soon thereafter, Grand Detour lost most of its residents as the railroad developed towns to the east and south.
The little stone church closed and remained vacant for almost 50 years. In 1909, as Grand Detour's beauty attracted a growing community of artists, Leonard Andrus's son William repaired the church. Services were held weekly by the priest of nearby Dixon, Illinois. The historic church was restored by a nonprofit community group in 1999, and it is now available for public and private events.In the mid-1920s Orson Welles spent a few months of the year in the summer resort town of Grand Detour, at a small country hotel that was purchased by his father, Richard Head Welles.: 92 The Sheffield Hotel was built in 1865 as a small inn to house workers at the plow factory.
It was destroyed in a fire May 14, 1928, shortly after Welles turned 13 years of age."It was called Grand Detour because the Rock River circles there — it's almost an island," as Welles remembered it some 50 years later. "I never even saw the ruins of my father's hotel. It really was a marvelous little corner in time, a kind of forgotten place … A childhood there was like a childhood back in the 1870s.
No electric light, horse-drawn buggies — a completely anachronistic, old-fashioned, early-Tarkington, rural kind of life, with a country store that had above it a ballroom with an old dance floor with springs in it, so that folks would feel light on their feet. When I was little, nobody had danced up there for many years, but I used to sneak up at night and dance by moonlight with the dust rising from the floor … Grand Detour was one of those lost worlds, one of those Edens that you get thrown out of.": 92–93
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