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Wilmetle<t 75th Anniversary 1872-1947WILMETTE LIFEWilmette Street Names Have ChangedPresent NameFormer NameDerivation of Original NameAshland ave.Fifth ave.Counting from Central avenueBeechwood ave.Kenilworth Dr. N.Extension of a Kenilworth streetBirchwood ave.Seeger st.Blackhawk road1Liberty st.Catalpa placeDoyle courtFor early settlerCentral ave.2George st.For George McDanielCentral Park ave.Nanzig ave.For Paul NanzigChestnut ave.Sixth ave.3Counting from Central avenueColgate st.Forest ave.Cornell st.Oxford st.Dartmouth st.Alles st.For Alles familyElmwood ave.NGreeNorth reservation boundaryn Bay rd.Worth ave.. Railroad ave.-tGreenleaf ave.Depot PI.C. & N. W. Ry. StationGreenwood ave.Fourth ave.5Counting from Central avenueGreenwood ave.aFranz st.Harvard st.Brown st.Illinois roadHapp rd.7For Happ familyIroquois rd.1Union st.Keating ave.Kilpa trick ave.Kenilworth ave.Kenilworth dr. S.KnoExtension of a Kenilworth streetx ave.Maple ave.Laurel ave.Michigan8 st.Lawndale st.Eighteenth st.Linden ave 2.James st.For; James KlineLockerbie laneLowler ave. Maple ave. Hill st. Michigan For B. F. Hill [Benjamin Franklin Hill] n ave.Sheridan ave.Oak CircleHorseORIGINAL WILMETTE This is the way Wilmette, now celebrating Shoe CurveOakwood ave.its 75th anniversary, was originally platted. The area laid out in thatPark ave.WSoeusth ave.original plat occupied only the northwest section of the old Ouilmettet ave.WSoeusth limits of villaget limit of First SubdivisionPrairie ave.Klinereservation from which the village took its name. (Photo from original st.For Simon Veeder KlineRamona rd.Miami rd.10map by John T. Booz II).Sheridan Rd.Central ave.11TAlthough Lake, Central, Linden,WhBarklay ave.Wilmette and East Railroad avenuesWaoalrsnnhuwood ave.int gatvoe.Greenwood ave.12n ave.2WashingtoCharles st.For Charles Westerfield13retain their original names, muchn ave.14WilmettBlum st.For Lambert Blumelse has changed. Division street,e ave.15WooGross Point rd.Gross Point to Ridgevillethe former east edge of the village,d courtGreenwood st.is now Eighth street. Some streetsSecond16 st.Fifth st.Counting from present 7th st.Thirwere named for the early settlersd st.Fourth st.Counting from present 7th st.Fourtand promoters. Henry street (nowh st.Third17 st.Counting from present 7th st.FifthNinth) was named fq/ Henry Din- st.Second st.Counting from present 7th st.Sixthgee; Alexander street (now Tenth) st.First st.Counting from present 7th st.Seventhfor Alexander McDaniel, who was st.Grove st.Eighth st.Divisionactive in the early days both of st.NintEast edge of first plath st.HenryWilmette and Winnetka; John street st.For Henry DingeeTenth st.Alexande18r st.For(now part of Eleventh) for John Alexander McDanielEleventh19 st.For John G. WesterfieldWesterfield, the first village presi-Eleventh20 st.WJoihlnli ast.m st.For William H Kinneydent; James street (now the west-Twelfth st.Park st.ern end of Linden avenue) forThirteenth21 st.Gage st.James Kline; and Charles streetThirteentFor Gage familyhJ st.Bennett st.(now Washington avenue) forFourteenthExtension of an Evanston street st.Foster st.FifteenthCharles Westerfield or Charles Vail, st.Elm st.Sixteenthboth of whom served as village st.OSeventeenthclerk in early days. st.Waakl nsut.22t st.Eighteenth st.Fernlea23f st.Twentieth st.Cambridg24eThe old west line of the village st.Twenty-First st.Melvin25 st.is now Fifteenth street. What wasTwenty-Second st.Princeton st.once Gross Point road (spelledTwenty-Third st.G"Gros" on the plat) is now partsTwenty-Fourth st.Wreenetlweyo ratve.h ave.Twenty-FifthCentral st.of Wilmette and Prairie avenues. st.Hancock st.West street is now Park avenue.Twenty-Sixth st.Sherman st.The followingstreets have apparentlyWHOGeorge street is now part of Cen- GOT WHAT After theretained their original names:Broadwayoldtral avenue; old Park street is now Village of Gross Point was, Central21, East Railroad, Forest, Lake, Linden21, Washington21,anddissolvedTwelfth street; and Gage street, in 1923, its former Woodbine avenues, and Isabella street.Footnotesneighborsnamed for one of the villages prom- reached out and an-: iwest of Romona road 2.west of railroad 3.also Clover ave-nue 4nexed most of the territory. Mapinent families, is now Thirteenth.also Main street, "also Hollywood avenue, "west of Twenty-third 7streetabove shows the partition of thestreet..also Avoca road, Reinwald avenue, Ashland s avenue.also Bryan 9streetvillage.Depot place was later extended.also Summer 10s street.also Spruce street, "also Grove street,Seventand became Greenleaf avenue. For-h street, and 12 State street.also Columbu lss street.or CharlesGedneyWinnetka got the section markedest avenue was not cut through un-, Charles Kline, or Charles Vail 14.west of the ridge 15.west ofKlin 10ein black, around the Indian Hilitil later years. South avenue is now street.now vacated and occupied by the North Shore channel.7section (the railway station isOaalso Meridian ls street.part of Wilmette avenue north of North avenue,"southmarked with the black circle in theWkwesood avenue.t Railroad avenue later be- of Lake avenue 20.north of Lake avenue 21.east of railroad2223southupper right-hand, or northeast cor-came Main street, and still more re- of Wilmette avenue called Hoefe r street.also Maple street.24alsoner). Kenilworth (horizontal stripes)cently Green Bay road. The last Clark 2r street.also Oak street and Pine street.took the triangle south of MacLeanname was chosen not because it fol-lows the old Green Bay trail itSUGGESTED NAMEOLavenue and west of Brier street.D "TAYLORSPORT"Evanston (dots) got the southeastdoesnt but to conform with theOriginating from Antoine Ouil-Anson H Taylor was the first resi-corner. Wilmette (vertical stripes)name used by Evanston, Kenilworth,mette, the name of the village wasdenand Winnetka.t of what is now Glencoe. He ar-took all the rest except the ex-first suggested, according to goodrivedtreme north end (white) around the in 1837, and the area aroundauthority, by Judge Henry W. Blod-hiIndian Hill club, which is still un-sNAMES ORIGIN home was for many years knownincorporated.gett, who was interested in the veryasAs squatters and settlers came Taylorsport. He was one of theThe old village extended from theearlyinto the North Shore area the whole real estate transactions of thefirst justices of the peace of Newline of Hill road on the north to theregion, broadly described as fromvillage.Trier township.old township limits at about CentralRogers Park uo to Highland Parkstreet, Evanston, on the south. Theand extending from the lake shoreFIRST MARRIAGEHELD MAJOR JOBSline of Locust road formed the westwest, was termed "Grosse Pointe."Antoine Ouilmettes marriage toTwo of the major public positionslimit. The eastern boundary was iThe village of Gross Point retainedArchange Chevallier in 1796 or 1797in the village were held by Edwardline drawn from the Indian Hillthis name for its community.at Gross Point, or what is nowZipf, president of the board of edu-station of the North Western rail-known as Wilmette and Evanston,cation from 1912 to 1917, and vil-way through the section of Ridgeto the northwest at the Elmwoodwas the first North Shore wedding oflage president from the latter yearroad which runs due north andavenue intersection, a slice of thewhich there is any history.to 1925.south. Since the latter road curvesvillage was east of Ridge road.