Channing Street Cemetery "Old Cem" Timeline
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Year | Event | Historical |
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1843 | James T. Gifford donates land for "Elgin Burying Ground" | First wagon train heads west on the Oregon Trail |
1844 | Channing Street Cemetery surveyed and plated by Adin Mann, county surveyor | James K. Polk wins election as 11th US President |
1845 | Channing designated as "a public burying ground" | US President James K. Polk announces "Manifest Destiny" |
1850 | James T. Gifford, Elgin's founder, buried in Channing Street Cemetery | Millard Fillmore sworn in as 13th US President |
1876 | Elgin Township Civil War monument erectided in Channing Street Cemetery | Alexander Graham Bell gets telephone patent |
1888 | Bluff City Cemetery established | Eastman Kodak founded by Georg Eastman |
1889 | Lot owners contacted and told to move family remains to Bluff City Cemetery | Benjamin Harrison becomes 23rd US President |
1906 | New interments discontinued at Channing | Wright Bros. patent the aeroplane |
1910 | Channing Street Cemetery becomes a weed infested field | Boy Scouts of America founded |
1915 | Equipment re-landscapes area prior to remains being completely removed | Worlds Fair opens in San Francisco |
1920 | Civil War monument moved to Bluff City Cemetery and Armistice Day services switched to Bluff City | US ratifies 19th amendment, women's suffrage |
1929 | City expedited acquisition of Channing for public playground and park | Stock market crash |
1936 | City seeks opinion from Illinois Attorney General concerning legal acquisition of Channing | Hindenburg Disaster |
1945 | Channing Street Cemetery officially closed | Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn in for 4th term as US President |
1947 | Removal of remains completed | Jackie Robinson, first African-American in MLB |
1949 | Four acres in southeast section leveled in anticipation of park construction | RCA introduces 45 RPM record |
1968 | Channing Elementary School is built | Martin Luther King assassinated |
1968 | Elgin Area Historical Society (EAHS) didicates a memorial marking cemetery site | Robert F Kennedy assassination |
1971 | EAHS dedicates grave of William Hackman, the last marked grave in Channing | Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands |
1998 | December, archaeologists conduct a preliminary dig at the site of Channing school addition | Ellis Island ruled to be primarily in New Jersey not New York |
1999 | January - April, archaelolgists remove remains from area slated for construction | Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama |
Year | Event | Historical |