The Ellwood House - DeKalb, Illinois
This video was taken of the Ellwood House in DeKalb, Illinois. The mansion was built by Mr. Ellwood after making his fortune inventing barb wire. The Ellwood House is built very close to the same as the Scutt Mansion in Joliet. There has been reported activity in the mansion, but an investigation is not likely due to the mansion also being a museum and nationally registered landmark.
Illinois Adventure #1707 Ellwood House Museum
Illinois Adventure visits the Ellwood House Museum. Ellwood House, a grand Victorian mansion, is located in a lovely park in the heart of DeKalb, Illinois. Inside, crystal chandeliers sparkle, gilt mirrors shine, and antique woodwork gleams. A visit to this elegant home brings the past to life! Built by barbed wire millionaire Isaac L. Ellwood in 1879, the mansion remains with its original furnishings just as when the Ellwood family lived there decades ago. Experience a bygone era as you tour the great English living room with its vast stone fireplace, the mahogany-panelled dining room, and the magnificent rotunda with a three-story spiral staircase. The many restored bedrooms, servants rooms, and service areas provide a glimpse of a complete household at the turn of the twentieth century.
Baymont Inn and Suites Dekalb - DeKalb Hotels, Illinois
Baymont Inn and Suites Dekalb 2 Stars Hotel in DeKalb, Illinois Within US Travel Directory This Dekalb hotel is located next to Northern Illinois University. It features a heated indoor pool and fitness centre and offers free Wi-Fi in every room. Guests can enjoy a daily continental breakfast during their stay.
Baymont Inn and Suites Dekalb also offers free daily newspapers and a business centre.
The traditionally decorated rooms are equipped with a coffee maker and cable TV.
Each room has ironing facilities along with a hairdryer.
Dekalb Baymont Inn and Suites is 1.
6 km from River Heights Golf Course and Ellwood House Museum.
Baymont Inn and Suites Dekalb - DeKalb Hotels, Illinois
Location in : 1314 West Lincoln Highway, IL 60115, DeKalb, Illinois - USA
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Red Roof Inn & Suites - Dekalb - DeKalb Hotels, Illinois
Red Roof Inn & Suites - Dekalb 3 Stars Hotel in DeKalb, Illinois Within US Travel DirectorySeconds from Northern Illinois University and near the centre of DeKalb, this Illinois hotel offers comfortable guestrooms and a number of thoughtful amenities, including free wireless internet.
Guests at the Red Roof Inn DeKalb & Suites can start each day with a free continental breakfast or take advantage of in-room coffeemakers.
The hotel also offers a seasonal outdoor pool as well as modern fitness facilities.
Local attractions, including the historic Egyptian Theatre can be found only minutes from the DeKalb Red Roof Inn.
The Ellwood House Museum and a variety of local shopping centres and restaurants are also nearby.
Red Roof Inn & Suites - Dekalb - DeKalb Hotels, Illinois
Location in : 1212 West Lincoln Highway, IL 60115, DeKalb, Illinois - USA
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DeKalb-Illinois,USA. Saidna Zulfiqar
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Investigators Have DNA Of Man Involved In Sycamore Double Homicide
CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
DeKalb Illinois To Raise Taxes and Fees
A comedic look at DeKalb City Manager Mark Biernacki's plan to raise taxes and fees for the city of DeKalb Illinois
A 2012 Tour of Oakwood Cemetery!
Oakwood Cemetery just across the woods from the Ellwood House in DeKalb, Illinois is said to have a burial that if you sit on top of it......you get pushed off. I have heard this rumor about other cemeteries with similar burials......you make the call.
Barb Wire History and How the West was Lost
James Burke creator of Connections talks a little about barb wire.
Barbed Wire History from Wiki:
The 1873 meeting and initial development
An early handmade specimen of Glidden's The Winner on display at the Barbed Wire History Museum in DeKalb, Illinois.
Patent drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to barbed wire
The Big Four in barbed wire were Joseph Glidden, Jacob Haish, Charles Francis Washburn, and Isaac L. Ellwood. Glidden, a farmer in 1873 and the first of the Big Four, is often credited for designing a successful sturdy barbed wire product, but he let others popularize it for him. Glidden's idea came from a display at a fair in DeKalb, Illinois in 1873, by Henry B. Rose. Rose had patented The Wooden Strip with Metallic Points in May 1873.
This was simply a wooden block with wire protrusions designed to keep cows from breaching the fence. That day, Glidden was accompanied by two other men, Isaac L. Ellwood, a hardware dealer and Jacob Haish, a lumber merchant. Like Glidden, they both wanted to create a more durable wire fence with fixed barbs. Glidden experimented with a grindstone to twist two wires together to hold the barbs on the wire in place. They were created from experiments with a coffee mill from his home.
Later Glidden was joined by Ellwood who knew his design could not compete with Glidden's for which he applied for a patent in October 1873. Meanwhile Haish, who had already secured several patents for barbed wire design, applied over a week before Glidden for a patent on his third type of wire, the S barb, and accused Glidden of interference, deferring Glidden's approval for his patented wire nicknamed The Winner until November 24, 1874.
Barbed wire production greatly increased with Glidden and Ellwood's establishment of the Barb Fence Company in DeKalb following the success of The Winner. The company's success attracted the attention of Charles Francis Washburn, Vice President of Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, an important producer of plain wire in the Eastern U.S. Washburn visited De Kalb and convinced Glidden to sell his stake in the Barb Wire Fence Company, while Ellwood stayed in DeKalb and renamed the company I.L Ellwood & Company of DeKalb.
The Abandoned MISSING BRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!
This abandoned Bridge was a neat scene, missing the center but we were still able to cross it!!!
You can tell this bridge is very very old!!!!!!!!
The Wire That Won the Wild West (and the WORLD)
The invention of barbed wire did more to revolutionize the American Old West and the entire world than any cowboy. And it all began in DeKalb, IL.
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DeKalb County is a county located in the U.S.state of Illinois.As of the 2010 census, the population was 105,160.Its county seat is Sycamore.
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The Emigrant - Sycamore Public Library - Sycamore Illinois
The Emigrant (brass, steel, copper, concrete) is a permanent, outdoor sculpture designed and built by Bart Woodstrup and Andy Baack in 1998.
The plow blade is the Emigrant. We named it The Emigrant after learning about an actual plow blade built in this area with that name. Currently the main degradation of this Midwest soil is, arguably, the urban sprawl that is surrounding small farm communities like Sycamore. So it seemed fitting to name it something that dealt with the migration of people to this town, and had a historical tie to the area. The shape is an abstract of both a plow shape and the shape of a wave. Symbolizing the wave of new people, new technology that is developing Sycamore.
Local farmer Warren Pearson, had a farm on the north side of Sycamore. Each year, the Boy Scouts would have a campout in his woods. I remember waking up early on the second day of the campout in order to look for arrowheads that were being uncovered by Warrens plow. I never found one, but many others did. There were plenty to find, and probably still are. This made quite an impression on me. I always wondered what happened to all those Native Americans. I sometimes wonder what our sons and daughters are going to say about what were doing to their land. Were killing the land. I wish those Native Americans were still around to teach us a thing or two. The arrowheads are their ghosts. Every time we turn the soil and find an arrowhead, we are reminded of their story.
The Emigrant is located in front of the Sycamore Public Library, at State St. and Main St., Sycamore, Illinois - a small farming community on the edge of the Chicago suburbs. The project was partially funded through the 1% for art commission, which was awarded in coordination with the annexation of the library in 1996.
2012 Jan-Feb Troop 33 DeKalb, IL
This video depicts a two month program (Janauary & February) from Boy Scout Troop 33, DeKalb, Illinois.
Activities inclulde: adventure expo, banquet, beach hiking, cabin, canyon hiking, cooking, dune climbing, eagle project, eagle watching, hotel, ice fishing, klondike derby, leadership planning, merit badge university, museum, riflery,scuba, sledding, skiing, snowboarding, swimming, tobaggonning, water park
Sycamore, Illinois Travel guide
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Troop 33 DeKalb, IL - Spring 2012
Spring 2012 program activities during March, April, and May. Activities included: archery, astronomy, backpacking, bicycling, bowling, camping trips, canoeing, climbing, cooking, EF-4 tornado disaster relief, Eagle project, fishing, food service, fundraising, merit badge classes, museum, nature study, parade, pig roast, riflery, service projects, wilderness survival.
Illinois Adventure #1805 - Out Takes
Jim Wilhelm, host of WTVP's ILLINOIS ADVENTURE, occasionally gets a bit tongue-tied.... See how it all turns out on the latest episode, premiering April 4 at 8:00pm.
Bob Vila
Robert Joseph Bob Vila is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House, Bob Vila's Home Again, and Bob Vila.
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