Fullersburg is a former village in
Downers Grove Township and
York Township, DuPage County, Illinois near the
Cook County border. Though never
incorporated in its own name, the area is historically important to the development of
Hinsdale and
Oak Brook, Illinois.
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The area was originally called Brush Hill and was claimed by Orente Grant when the Indian land in Illinois was ceded to the United States government in the
1833 Treaty of Chicago
The 1833 Treaty of Chicago was an agreement between the United States government and the Chippewa, Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes. It required them to cede to the United States government their of land (including reservations) in Illinois, ...
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[ in ] Benjamin Fuller, of
Broome County, New York, arrived in 1835 with his parents Jacob and Candace Fuller and some other relatives, and settled at Ginger Creek at what later became Spring Road in
Oak Brook.
[This appears to be the areas that are now Hamburger University and Kensington Road in survey section 26 in Oak Brook: Before the McDonald's campus, Spring Road continued through, along what is now the section of Ronald Lane east of what is now Hamburger University.] Ben Fuller built a house in 1840 on what is now York Road.
(By 1985, this Fuller House had moved into the
Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve from its original location.)
By 1851, he owned most of the area, and in 1851 subdivided and platted; the name changed from Brush Hill to Fullersburg.
See also
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Graue Mill
Notes
References
Hinsdale, Illinois
Oak Brook, Illinois
Unincorporated communities in Cook County, Illinois
Unincorporated communities in DuPage County, Illinois
1851 establishments in Illinois
Unincorporated communities in Illinois
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