Joliet's First Stone Building - Joliet, IL
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N 41° 31.555 W 088° 05.251
16T E 409268 N 4597712
This marker is located in Joliet's Bicentennial Park.
Waymark Code: WMC14Y
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2011
Views: 5
Embedded in a boulder near the gazebo in Bicentennial Park, this marker reads:
"Here in 1834 Martin and Sophia Demmond built
a one and one half story house using one room
for his first store before moving into Joliet's
first stone building which he constructed at
Bluff and Jefferson. In 1836, Col. John Curry
added to the house, living there until he died
in 1872. Along this busy site, R. Hunter, Lewis
Reed and William Callighan had blacksmith
shops and Deacon J. Beaumont had a carriage
shop which also sold paints, oils and glass.
Will-Joliet Bicentennial Park, Inc."
The plaque doesn't explain that the intersection of Bluff and Jefferson referred to on the marker is just a few steps away at the entrance to the Park
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