Comments on: The History of My Subdivision

By: The Suburbs: What I’ll Miss

The Suburbs: What I’ll Miss — Thu, 05 May 2016 12:04:09 +0000

[…] Old farm houses and barns in random places around town. Real farms, like Green Earth Institute, where we were part of a Community Supported Agriculture (buy a subscription to a farm and receive veggies each week). […]

By: The Indian Boundary Line

The Indian Boundary Line — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:48:37 +0000

[…] the past, I’ve blogged about the farmland our subdivision was built on, and the man who watched his family farmhouse burned down as part of the construction process. I’ve blogged about the first European farmers who moved […]

By: My Patch of Earth

My Patch of Earth — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:05:47 +0000

[…] out of the state of Illinois in the 1830s.) My yard was farmed for decades; most recently, by the Lambert family. I the early 1990s, the Lamberts sold their farm to a building company, which stripped the topsoil […]

By: Tim Noethen

Tim Noethen — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:35:11 +0000

I lived in Colonial Village. I went to all of the schools in Romeoville and Bolingbrook. We lived on Queenswood Rd. We lived there from 1962 to 1970. I had a great childhood there.

By: Katherine Willis Pershey

Katherine Willis Pershey — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:05:42 +0000

The phrase “burned down my childhood” is just unspeakably sad. Though, I hope the children growing up in the subdivision are having happy childhoods on the same beloved land.