History on the Move!
Long Grove’s historic 18050’s Ruth family barn has been host to educational and cultural activities for decades. Get involved and enable it to live on.
Read MoreNov 28, 2023
Long Grove’s historic 18050’s Ruth family barn has been host to educational and cultural activities for decades. Get involved and enable it to live on.
Read MoreSep 17, 2023
Fancy a creepy historical walk around the coolest downtown in Lake County? Join the Long Grove Historical Society for their annual Long Grove Ghost Walk! The ghosts will be there… will you?
Read MoreAug 12, 2023
Recently we undertook some research on the old house “formerly known as Red Oaks”. It is currently part of a cluster of buildings that include the Fred Astaire Dance Studio and Brother’s Field. Here’s what we found… The house was probably built around 1884 by Mine Lemker. Mine was a widow whose husband had recently died. She built the house on land she bought after her husband’s farm was sold. The house has had several owners since then. The earliest maps of the area show no house there in 1861. But by 1885, a map shows a house owned...
Read MoreJul 21, 2023
Take a short walk through the middle of downtown Long Grove and learn a tiny bit of our history
Read MoreJan 9, 2023
Construction on the Mill Pond Shops “shopping center” appears to have begun in 1968, though the first building (the one with the wheel) wasn’t completed until 1974. A secondary building was completed a few years after that. Originally owned, as was all of the downtown crossroads by the Ruth family, this “corner” of the crossroads eventually became it’s own unique farm, with the farm house and buildings located where 4103 Robert Parker Coffin is today. According to county records, some of the 1940’s era structures from that farm were the basis of the building currently standing at that address....
Read MoreSep 27, 2022
Fancy a creepy historical walk around the coolest downtown in Lake County? Join the Long Grove Historical Society for their annual Long Grove Ghost Walk! The ghosts will be there… will you?
Read MoreJul 4, 2022
Pull on your Poodle Skirts and Tie-dye Shirts to test your knowledge of The Nifty-Fifties and the Far-Out Sixties. Friday, August 5th 2022.
Read MoreOct 1, 2021
Fancy a creepy historical walk around the coolest downtown in Lake County? Join the Long Grove Historical Society for their annual Long Grove Ghost Walk! The ghosts will be there… will you?
Read MoreAug 6, 2021
Abe Lincoln may never have visited Long Grove, but his namesake is set to rule the town this coming year.
Read MoreJul 28, 2021
Twenty dogs in the hunt for top dog, but only one can rule the town. Join us to meet all the top dogs – Sunday, August 1st, 3pm at Brother’s Field in Long Grove.
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