PRODUCTION OF SPRINGDALE, MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME WAS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY TOM AND EMILY LUTHIE WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM JIM AND LOU BALDWIN BALDWIN.

>> STORIES PRACTICALLY REACH OUT T YOU AS YOU BRUSH BY THE MONUMENT MONUMENTS IN THIS CEMETERY.

YOU FIND ANECDOTES OF SACRIFICE AND UNEXPLAINED LEGENDS.

>>WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND PARTLY DEMOLISHED.

>>SHE WAS ALSO THE FIRST WOMAN TO SIT ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTOR OF A BANK.

THERE ARE TWO CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR BURIED IN SPRINGDALE.

THERE ARE MYSTERIOUS YARNS AND FOLKLORE ABOUT MONEY AND POWER.

>>LARGE OF BOULDERS WERE USED I ORDER TO COVER THE GRAVES SO TH DECEASED PERSON COULD NOT RISE OUT OF THE GRAVE.

>>HE PUT A CURSE ON THE GOVERNO AND SAID HE WOULD LIVE WITH THI CURSE THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

>>WHEN A CEMETERY IS 150 YEARS OLD, THERE ARE TALES THAT WEAVE A TIME LINE OF HISTORY, REVEALING A RICH TRADITION.

THIS IS SPRINGDALE CEMETERY, HOLDING MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME.

♪♪ OF THE SIX MEN WHO FIRST ARRIVED IN PEORIA COUNTY HAD IN 1821, TWO STAYED, SETH AND JOSIAH FULTON.

JOSIAH HAS REMAINED ALL THESE YEARS, HERE IN SPRING DALE.

JOSIAH, WITH BROTHER SETH, CAME UP THE ILLINOIS RIVER FROM KASKASKIA WHERE THEIR FATHER RA A FERRY BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

>>WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND COURT CLARK, PARTLY DEMOLISHED.

IT HAD BEEN VACANT FOR ABOUT SI OR EIGHT YEARS.

THEY FOUND TWO LOG CABINS THAT WERE PARTIALLY BURNED.

THIS REBUILT THOSE TWO LOG CABINS AND LIVED IN THOSE LOG CABINS AND ON THE KIEL BOAT THE USED TO ARRIVE HERE DURING THE FIRST YEAR.

JOSIAH MADE HIS LIVING AS A FARMER.

HE BOUGHT THE LAND BY THE COURTHOUSE.

THE LAND RAN FROM ABOUT WHERE THE COMMERCE BANK BUILDING IS TODAY DOWN TO THE RIVER AND THE SOMEWHERE SOUTH AND LITTLE BIT NORTH UP BY FAYETTE STREET PERHAPS, AND HE FARMED THAT LAN IN THE 18 20'S.

AFTER THAT, HE SOLD THAT LAND, AND THEN IN THE EARLY LATE 18 20'S, EARLY 1830'S, HE BOUGHT THE LAND WHERE SAINT AUGUSTINE MANOR WAS LOCATED WHICH WAS PROCTOR HOME.

THAT LAND HE OWNED BETWEEN GLEN OAK AND MADISON STREET BETWEEN SPRING STREET AND WHERE WOODRUF HIGH SCHOOL NOW STANDS.

HE FARMED THAT LAND UNTIL ABOUT 1834 WHEN HE MOVED -- HE SOLD THAT AND MOVED WAY NORTH OUT ON KNOXVILLE.

THAT LAND WAS BETWEEN FOREST HILL, WAR MEMORIAL, KNOXVILLE, ABOUT 160 ACRES.

JOSIAH FULTON'S DESCENDANTS REMAIN HERE ON THAT SAME LAND MORE THAN 170 YEARS LATER.

HIS CHAIR SITS IN A LIVNG ROOM TODAY.

>> SETH FULTON, HIS BROTHER, WA THE FIRST HOTEL KEEPER IN PEORIA PEORIA.

HE OWNED A HOTEL, AND I BELIEVE THE NAME OF IT WAS THE PEORIA HOTEL ON WATER STREET.

I DON'T THINK IT WAS VERY LARGE JUST A SMALL HOTEL, AND THAT WA HIS BUSINESS.

HIS BROTHER, SAM, GOT INTO THE POLITICAL WORLD EARLY ON.

IN 1825, SAM WAS ELECTED THE FIRST SHERIFF OF PEORIA COUNTY.

JOSIAH'S WIFE AUGUSTA GAVE BIRT TO THE FIRST EUROPEAN CHILD IN PEORIA COUNTY, NANCY JANE FULTON FULTON, IN 1832.

GOVERNOR THOMAS FORD, A FORMER PEORIAIAN, CAME FROM IRELAND.

HE CAME TO FIRST PITTSBURGH IN THIS COUNTRY, AND THEN HE MOVED OVER TO NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, WHERE HE MARRIED AN IRISH GIRL.

THEY HAD NEVER MET BEFORE IN NASHVILLE.

SHE WAS IRISH ALSO.

THEY GOT MARRIED THERE.

THEY HAD FIVE SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS.

LATER ON, THEY MOVED TO PEORIA ABOUT 1838.

IN NASHVILLE, HE HAD A BOOT STORE, BOOT AND SHOE STORE WHIC HE MOVED TO PEORIA.

BUT THEM HE GOT A LAW DEGREE, AND HE BECAME AN ATTORNEY IN PEORIA AND WENT ONTO BECOME THE JUDGE OF THE PEORIA CIRCUIT COURT.

AND AFTER THAT, HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT.

WHEN FORD BECAME GOVERNOR, ILLINOIS WAS IN BAD SHAPE.

IT HAD BECOME ALMOST BANKRUPT OVER THE MICHIGAN-ILLINOIS CANA PARTICIPATION.

AND RATHER THAN FILE BANKRUPTCY FORD DECIDED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, AND HE IN FOUR YEARS TURNED ILLINOIS AROUND AND IT BECAME SOLVENT ONCE MORE.

HE IS NOTED AS ONE OF THE BEST GOVERNORS WE EVER HAD WITH REGARD TO MONEY.

SHORTLY BEFORE GOVERNOR FORD BECAME GOVERNOR, THE MORMANS MOVED INTO NAVOO, ILLINOIS.

THE SMITH BROTHERS, JOSEPH AND H HYRAM, STARTED THEIR CHURCH THERE.

IT WAS AT THAT TIME IN THOSE DAYS THIS WAS NOT A WELCOMED CHURCH IN THE AREA.

THE OTHER CHRISTIANS WERE NOT BELIEVERS IN WHAT THEY BROUGHT TO NAVOO.

SO THEY HAD A RATHER DANGEROUS LIFE THERE.

WHILE THEY WERE IN NAVOO, THEY HAD A FIGHT WITH THE NEWSPAPER THERE AND THREATENED TO BURN IT DOWN.

SO THEY THREW THEM IN CARTHAGE, ILLINOIS, JAIL.

IT IS THERE WHERE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WITH THEIR FACES BLACKEN BLACKENED CAME IN AND KILLED BOTH BROTHERS.

BEFORE JOSEPH SMITH DIED, HE PU A CURSE ON GOVERNOR FORD, AND SAID THAT HE WOULD LIVE WITH THIS CURSE THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

SO AFTER THE SMITHS DIED, GOVERNOR FORD CAME BACK TO PEORIA, HAD ILL HEALTH.

HIS WIFE ALSO HAD ILL HEALTH, AND A FRIEND TOOK THEM IN BECAUSE THEY ARE PRACTICALLY PAUPERS AT THE TIME.

HE TRIED TO PRACTICE THE LEGAL PROFESSION AGAIN IN PEORIA, BUT HIS APPEARANCE AND THE WAY HE DRESSED JUST WASN'T APPROPRIATE.

SO HE DIDN'T MAKE ANY GREAT MONEY AT IT.

SO HE DECIDED TO CHANGE COURSES AND HE WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.

AFTER HE DIED, THAT BOOK WAS PUBLISHED.

HE DIED PRACTICALLY A PAUPER.

HIS ESTATE WAS $146.06.

HERMAN PURPLE WAS A PROMINENT ATTORNEY IN 19TH CENTURY.

HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH WELL-KNOWN, ATTORNEYS SUCH AS GEORGE METCALF, AND HAROLD Mc McCOY.

HE WAS APPOINTED JUSTICE TO THE ILLINOIS STATE SUPREME COURT BY THOMAS FORD IN 1845.

HE THEN MOVED TO QUINCY, ILLINOIS, TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES WITH THE STATE SUPREME COURT.

UPON HIS RETURN TO PEORIA IN 1848, HE TIPPED MAKING MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE FIELD OF LAW.

ONE OF HIS MOST NOTABLE CAME IN 1856 WITH THE PUBLICATION OF TH COMPILATION OF THE STATUTES OF STATE OF ILLINOIS WHICH ARE KNOWN AS THE PURPLE STATUTES.

HE FREQUENTLY TRAVELED TO CHICAGO TO ATTEND SESSIONS OF THE U.S.

CIRCUIT COURT.

HE DIED AT THE SHERMAN HOUSE IN CHICAGO, AUGUST 9, 1864.

HIS BODY WAS BROUGHT BACK TO PEORIA, IN SPRINGDALE, CEMETERY.

IN THE FAMILY PROPERTIES THE JUDGE, HIS WIFE, ANNA LIZA, AND THREE OF THEIR SIX CHILDREN AND ONE GRANDSON ARE BURIED HERE.

THE MARKERS THEMSELVES ARE HIGHLY UNUSUAL.

AS YOU NOTICE WITH THE TOMORROW STONE MARKING OF THE JUDGE AND HIS WIFE, ARE RAISED ABOVE GRAD LEVEL OFF OF THE GROUND.

THEY ARE SHAPED IN THE FORM OF CASKET.

THE JUDGE AND HIS WIFE, THE MONUMENT HAS E WILL BE RIT CARVE CARVING AND A ROMAN CROSS.

THEY ARE SANDSTONE, AND THAT IS SOMEWHAT UNUSUAL.

THE TWO SONS WHICH ARE BURIED OVER HERE TO THE SIDE, CHARLES AND WILMINGTON WILLIAM, ALSO HAVE RAISED SANDSTONE MARKERS.

THEY DIED AT EARLY AGES.

ONE WAS 29, AND THE OTHER ONLY 34.

THE CARVING, THOUGH, IS NOT THE SAME AS ON THEIR PARENT'S MARKER MARKER.

IT HAS A WILLOW OR HICKORY WOODEN CROSS CARVED INTO THE TO OF THE MONUMENT FOR EACH OF THE BURIAL SITES, AND NO OTHER DECORATION ON THE SANDSTONE.

THE ROCK PILE IS VERY UNUSUAL THAT SITS TO THE BACK OF THE GRAVE SITE.

THERE IS NO BURIAL BENEATH IT, BUT SINCE THREE OF THE CHILDREN DIED ELSEWHERE, IT IS MORE THAN LIKELY A MEMORIAL TO THESE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO COULDN'T SHARE THIS SPOT AS THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACE.

HISTORICALLY LARGE PILES OF STONES OR BOULDERS WERE USED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY SUPERSTITIOUS IN ORDER TO COVER THE GRAVES SO THE DECEASED PERSON COULD NOT RISE OUT OF TH GRAVE FROM BENEATH THEM.

A WALK THROUGH SPRINGDALE CEMETERY CAN BE MUCH LIKE VISITING AN OPEN AIR ART GALLERY GALLERY.

STATUES AND ORNATE CARVINGS REFLECT THE IN SCHNUCK'S OF THE THE INFLUENCE OF THE FAMILIES B.

MANY OF THE OLD MONUMENTS IN SPRINGDALE WERE CREATED BY OTTO TREBLE AND SONS COMPANY.

HIS SON, FRITZ, WOULD P.M.

INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN SCULPTOR IN THE LATE 1800'S.

FRITZ CREATED WHAT MAYBE THE FINEST PIECE OF ART IN SPRINGDALE, THE STATUE OF PEACE.

IT IS PART OF THE MONUMENT COMMISSIONED BY PEORIA DEPARTMENT STORE OWNER FREDERIC BLOCK.

A SCULPTOR FROM LATER ERA WAS JOSEPH POTARDI, WHOSE SIMPLE MARKER BELIES HIS ACTUAL TALENT.

POTARDI WAS BORN IN A FAMILY THAT CAME FROM AN AREA IN ITALY WHERE THEY WERE ALL STONE CARVERS.

HIS FATHER WAS A STONE CARVER WHEN THE POTARDI FAMILY MOVED T ROME, THAT'S WHERE JOSEPH WAS BORN.

HE STARTED CARVING AT ABOUT THE AGE OF FIVE.

HIS FATHER, OF COURSE, WAS A PROFESSIONAL CARVER.

HE RAN AWAY FROM HOME WHEN HE WAS ABOU 14.

THEY FOUND HIM, TOOK HIM BACK, AND LATER ON HE LEFT AND WENT T PARIS AND WORKED THERE FOR TWO OR THREE YEARS I THINK.

THEN HE WENT TO NEW YORK AND LIVED WITH A BROTHER IN NEW YOR AND STARTED CARVING IN NEW YORK.

THEN HE GOT TO PEORIA BY BEING HIRED BY A RIVERBOAT CAPTAIN BY THE NAME OF ALEXANDER PARTRIDGE WHO GAVE THE LAND FOR THE EVER SPRING FREE BRIDGE, UPPER THREE BRIDGE WHICH WAS NORTH OF THE M McCLUGAGE BRIDGE.

HE WAS HIRED BY PARTRIDGE AND CAME TO PEORIA TO CARVE THE JOLIET LIMESTONE QUARRY.

HE LIVED WITH THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, AND LATER MARRIED A DAUGHTER, AND STAYED HERE IN PEORIA.

HE WORKED IN PLACE LIKE GALESBURG AND BLOOMINGTON, AND AROUND DIFFERENT SPARTANS.

BUT HE SENT A MAJOR PART OF HIS LIFE HERE.

WELL, I GUESS HE WAS A RATHER QUIET MAN.

HE HAD ALSO QUITE A SENSE OF HUMOR WHICH WAS BROUGHT OUT ON THE CARVINGS ON HIS HOUSE.

HE KIND OF HAD A -- LIKED SOME OF THE RATHER SLIGHTLY BAWDY THINGS THAT HE HAD ALSO CARVED.

THE LIONS, I UNDERSTAND THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN LOVED THE LIONS, AND THEY USED TO PLAY ON LIONS.

BUT THE NEIGHBORS WEREN'T TERRIBLY FOND OF THE SUPPORTS FOR THE PORCH.

THERE ARE TWO PARTLY NUDE WOMEN AND ATLAS HOLDING UP HIS SHORTS.

THEY WERE A LITTLE BIT OFFENDED BY THAT.

THE McCLUGAGE BRIDGE REPLACED THE FREE BRIDGE ANY WHICH HE WORKED.

THE BRIDGE WAS NAMED AFTER LATE MAYOR McCLUCAGE.

SOME CITY LEADERS WANTED TO NAM IT AFTER AVIATION PIONEER OCTAV CHANUTE.

HIS FATHER TAUGHT HISTORY HISTORY AT THE ACADEMY OF FRANCE FRANCE, AND WHEN CHANUTE WAS FIGURED, HIS FATHER CAME TO AMERICA TO TEACH IN NEW ORLEANS.

THEY WOUND UP IN NEW ORLEANS AN NEW YORK, AND CHICAGO, AND ELSEWHERE.

HE FINALLY CAME TO PEORIA, I PRESUME BECAUSE HE MARRIED A PEORIA GIRL.

HIS EXPERIMENTS WITH GLIDERS, H DIDN'T START THIS UNTIL HE WAS 60.

HE MUST HAVE BEEN ALMOST READY TO RETIRE.

AND HE WOULD BE UP AT THE DOING ALONG SOUTHERN SHORE LAKE MICHIGAN WHERE GARY IS NOW, AND HE MADE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS O FLIGHTS OF GLIDERS.

KEPT EXPANDING AND PERFECTING THEM, AND I GUESS THEY GOT TO B REALLY GOOD.

THE WRIGHTS BASED THEIR FIRST GLIDER ON THIS.

HE SORT OF INFLUENCED THE WRIGHT WRIGHTS, AND HE WAS THERE FOR THE FIRST FLIGHT AND ALL THAT THING.

INTERESTINGLY, CHANUTE PREDICTE AIRPLANES WOULD BE USED TO CARR MAIL, TO CARRY PASSENGERS, AND TO -- AS A PART OF WARFARE.

CHANUTE FIELD WAS STARTED AND OPENED IN 1917 TO TRAIN AMERICA PILOTS FOR WORLD WAR I WHICH WA THE FIRST WAR IN WHICH AIRPLANE REALLY PLAYED ANY PART WHATSOEVER.

THERE IS NOT MUCH TO MARK CHANUTE'S LIFE IN PEORIA, JUST ONE SHORT ROAD AND THESE SMALL MARKERS FOR HIM AND HIS WIFE AT SPRINGDALE.

WHILE CHANUTE WAS KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF AVIATION, HIS CONTEMPORARY, JOHN WARNER, WAS CALLED THE FOUNDER OF MODERN PEORIA.

>>JOHN WARNER CAME TO PEORIA WITH HIS MOTHER AND FATHER AND SEVEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

HIS FATHER WAS IN THE HOTEL BUSINESS AND MANAGED THE CLINTO HOUSE WHICH WAS AT THE CORNER O ADAMS AND FULTON STREET.

IT WAS A WELL-KNOWN HOTEL, ONE OF THE FIRST IN PEORIA.

JOHN WENT TO PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR APPEARED AND THEN BECAME A CLERK IN HIS FATHER'S HOTEL.

AFTER HE HAD BEEN A SUCCESSFUL MERCHANT IN PEORIA FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, HE SOLD MEN'S WEAR, H ORGANIZED AN IRISH REGIMENT WHE THE CIVIL WAR STARTED AND BECAM THEIR COLONEL.

THIS GROUP OF SERVICEMEN WERE I THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG AT A PLACE CALLED CHICKASAW NEAR VICKSBURG.

WHEN HE FIRST RETURNED TO PEORIA PEORIA, HE WAS APPOINTED POSTMASTER, BUT HE APPARENTLY DIDN'T ENJOY THIS WORK BECAUSE HE RESIGNED THAT POSITION AND BECAME A WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER DEALER.

NOW YOU RECOGNIZE THAT LIQUOR WAS BIG BUSINESS IN PEORIA IN THAT A.

HE WAS MAYOR FOR 13 YEARS OVER 25 YEAR PERIOD BEGINNING IN 1874 1874.

HE WAS THE FIRST MAYOR TO HAVE SERVED THIS LONG A PERIOD OF TIME.

DURING HIS TERM IN OFFICE, HE BROUGHT ABOUT A NUMBER OF IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE COMMUNITY.

FOR EXAMPLE, HE REORGANIZED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, MAKING IT WHAT WAS THEN CONSIDERED TO BE AN OUTSTANDING METROPOLITAN DEPARTMENT.

HE PUT UNIFORMS ON POLICEMEN.

APPARENTLY THEY HAD NOT HAD A CONSISTENT UNIFORM BEFORE THIS TIME.

AND MAYBE MOST IMPORTANT AMONG HIS CONTRIBUTIONS IS THAT HE WA MAYOR WHEN THE PRESENT CITY HAL WAS BUILT.

WARNER'S BODY SITS ATOP VISTA HILL IN SPRING DAY.

HE SERVED THE MOST YEARS AS PEORIA'S MAYOR IN THE 19TH CENTURY.

THE VERY FIRST MAYOR OF PEORIA, WAS WILLIAM HALE.

HE WAS A GROUP OF CITY EARLY FOUNDERS WHO NOW REST HERE IN SPRINGDALE CEMETERY.

>>AFTER THE CIVIL WAR IN 1865, PEORIA BEGAN TO RECOGNIZE THEIR FOUNDING FATHERS WITH THEIR STORIES IN HOOK BOOKS LIKE THIS FROM 1873 WITH MAGNIFICENT PICTURES AND TALES OF WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH IN THEIR PIONEER DAYS.

YOU WALK THROUGH SPRINGDALE CEMETERY AND YOU REALIZE THAT MOST OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AR BURIED RIGHT HERE.

THERE IS GARDENER BARKER, ELLIOTT CALENDAR, BENJAMIN BORE BORELAND, GREAT INDUSTRIAL PIONEERS, ROBERT AVERY, MARTIN ENGLAND.

BUT THE ONE THEY RECOGNIZE THE MOST AS THE REVEERED AND HONORE IN ALL THE HISTORY BOOKS IS JOH HAMLIN.

JOHN HAMLIN CAME TO PEORIA IN 1821.

HE FOUND TWO LOG CABINS HERE, AND HE SET UP OUR FIRST AMERICA TRADING POST.

HE STARTED OUR FIRST BUSINESS WHICH WAS PORK PACKING, AND HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON THAT OWNED A STEAMBOAT THAT RAN THE ILLINOIS RIVER.

HE WENT ONTO BECOME OUR FIRST JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, OUR FIRST CITY CALLED.

HE BECAME OUR FIRST ILLINOIS STATE REPRESENTATIVE AND FIRST ILLINOIS STATE SENATOR.

WHEN PEORIA COUNTY WAS FORMED I 1825 CHICAGO WAS PART OF PEORIA COUNTY FOR SIX YEARS.

SO ALL OF THE FIRST BIRTH CERTIFICATES, DEATH CERTIFICATES CERTIFICATES, AND MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES IN CHICAGO ALL BEA JOHN HAMLIN'S SIGNATURE.

MANY PIONEERS MADE THEIR LIVING ON THE ILLINOIS RIVER SUCH AS GEORGE BASTORE, A RIVERBOAT CAPTAIN WHO SERVED AS MAYOR IN THE 1850'S AND AS POSTMASTER OF PEORIA.

ANOTHER EARLY RIVER ENTHUSIAST WAS HENRY DETWEILLER WHO CAME HERE IN 1837 FROM LORRAINE, FRANCE.

HE STARTED TRAINING AS A RIVERBOAT PILOT WHEN HE WAS 15 AND OFFERED HIS SKILLS DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

>>HE APPARENTLY DID A LOT OF TRANSPORTING MATERIALS, AND EVE HORSES.

THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT HE HA TRANSPORTED $25,000 WORTH OF HORSES.

IT WAS HAZARDOUS DUTY.

HIM GOING THROUGH THE RIVER WAY AND DURING THE CIVIL WAR, BUT H WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL, NEVER LOST A SHIP AND EVERYTHING.

PLUS HE KNEW ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

HE GOT TO KNOW HIM JUST DURING THEIR RIVERBOAT TRAVELS BECAUSE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WOULD GOP AND DOWN THE ILLINOIS.

PLUS HE HAD OTHER FRIENDS, TOO.

PH BARNUM.

AND HE WAS A FASCINATING ROMAN ROMANTIC CHARACTER.

HE IS SOMEONE WE THINK OF AS RIVERBOAT PILOT.

THE CURLY AND RULE I HAIR, I GUESS, GOATEE.

EVERY PHOTO SHOWS HIM WITH THE GOATEE.

IT SHOWS EXACTLY THE SAME FROM THE YOUNGEST PHOTO TO THE LAST ONES WE HAVE OF HIM.

HENRY WAS A TRUE RIVER MAN, IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE WHEN HE WASN'T GOING DOWN THE STEAMBOAT DOWN THE RIVER.

THEN HE WAS COLLECTING ICE DURING THE WINTER, STORING IT I THE SUMMER AND HAD A LUCRATIVE ICE BUSINESS BACK IN 1870 WHICH HE STARRED WITH NELSON WOODRUFF WHO WAS MAYOR WOODRUFF'S FATHER.

THE TWO OF THEM SPLIT, THOUGH, FEW YEARS LATER.

THE TWO DOMINANT NAMES COME UP IN PEORIA HISTORY, AS FAR AS TH DETWEILLER ICE CUP, AND WOODRUF ICE COMPANY.

EVERYTHING WAS BUILT AROUND WATER, WHETHER IT WAS LIQUID OR WHETHER IT WAS FROZEN.

HE AND HIS WIFE MAGDALENE.

HE MARRIED HER.

SHE WAS FROM THE SAME PART OF FRANCE HE WAS FROM.

THEY MET HERE AND MARRIED IN 1848.

THEY HAD SEVEN CHILDREN, AND FOUR OF THEM DIED BEFORE HE DIE IN 1903.

THERE ARE NAMES ON EVERY ONE OF THE STONES OUT HERE BECAUSE ALL SEVEN OF THEIR CHILDREN ARE BURIED WITH HENRY AND HIS WIFE.

BUT HIS WIFE'S STONE DOES NOT HAVE HER GIVEN NAME WHICH IS VERY IRONIC WHEN YOU GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT IT.

BUT THAT SAYS A LOT FOR TIME PERIOD, TOO.

BELOVED WIFE BECAUSE A LOT OF I WAS BASE ON THE MAN WHO HAD THE STATURE IN THE FAMILY.

SHE DIED IN THE 1880'S, AND SOM OF THE REPORTS THAT HE WAS DEVASTATED BY HER LOSS, AND OF COURSE, THEY HAD A LOT OF TRAGEDY IN THEIR LIFE.

HIS SON TOOK THE TIME, THOMAS, GAVE THE PEORIA PARK DISTRICT 140 ACRES BACK IN 1927.

THIS WAS WAY, WAY UP NORTH OF THE CITY.

EVERYBODY THOUGHT, WHAT A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY, AND A DONATION TO THE COMMUNITY.

BUT THOMAS PICKED THAT AREA WHICH WE KNOW NOW AS DETWEILLER PARK BECAUSE IT OVERLOOKED THE RIVER WHICH HIS FATHER WOULD HAVE LOVED.

OUT OF THAT HAS GROWN DETWEILLE DRIVE, DETWEILLER GOLF COURSE, DETWEILLER MARINA.

YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FROM IT.

IT IS AS DOMINANT A NAME AS I THINK BRADLEY IS HERE IN THE COMMUNITY.

SHORTLY AFTER SPRINGDALE WAS CHARTERED, LYDIA BOUGHT A LARGE SITE IN THE CEMETERY, LARGE PLO OF LAND.

ONE OF THE THINGS SHE DID WAS T MOVE HER FATHER FROM THE OLD CITY CEMETERY TO SPRINGDALE.

SHE DID THAT IN 1859.

TOBIAS WAS ORIGINALLY INVOLVED IN PARTNERSHIPS WITH LYDIA'S BROTHER, WILLIAM MOSS, WHO WAS ALREADY IN PEORIA AND QUITE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN IN A NUMBER OF VENTURES WITH WILLIAM MOSS, TOBIAS BECAME INVOLVED IN LUMBER MILLS, DISTILLERY, WHAT LATER BECAME THE PEORIA AND ROC ISLAND RAILROAD.

IN FACT, WILLIAM MOSS AT ONE TIME HAD PURCHASED A RIVERBOAT WHICH TOBIAS PILOTED UP AND DOW THE ILLINOIS RIVER EARNING A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL INCOME FOR HAULING FREIGHT.

SO REALLY I GUESS YOU COULD SAY TOBIAS BRADLEY APPRENTICED UNDE WILLIAM MOSS AND DEVELOPED A LO OF HIS SHREWD NES IN BUSINESS, AND HE ALSO ENCOURAGED TOBIAS T GET INTO LAND SPECULATION, BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.

WHEN TOBIAS DIED RATHER SUDDENL IN AN ACCIDENT, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED AT THAT TIME THAT LYDIA, AS A WIDOW, WOULD HAVE SIMPLY LIVED IN GENTILE OBSCURITY AND SIMPLY COLLECTED THE INCOME A CREWING FROM THE ESTABLISHED INVESTMENTS IN BUSINESSES.

SHE WAS REALLY VERY UNUSUAL FOR HER TIME BECAUSE SHE DID NOT DO THAT.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, OVER THE COURSE OF THE REST OF HER LIFE, SHE QUADRUPLED THE ESTATE BY GETTING INTO A LOT OF THINGS TOBIAS HADN'T GOTTEN INTO, PARTICULARLY IN RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.

SHE GOT INTO LAND DEVELOPMENT, TENANT FARMING, REALLY SHOWED QUITE A KNACK FOR RECLAIMING LAND THAT PEOPLE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PRODUCTIVE.

SHE WAS ALSO THE FIRST WOMAN TO SIT ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS O A BANK IN ILLINOIS, THERE IS SOME THOUGHT THAT SHE MAY HAVE BEEN THE FIRST IN THE COUNTRY.

ONE OF THE PROVISIONS IN LYDIAS WILL WAS FOR THE REGULAR PLACEMENT OF FLOWERS ON HER GRAVE AND TOBIAS'.

THAT MAY HAVE BEEN BECAUSE LYDI WAS AN AVID, AVID AMATEUR GARDENER, MAINTAINED A VERY LARGE GARDEN IN THE BACK OF HER HOME AND WAS ALWAYS RAISING AND EXPERIMENTING WITH VARIETIES OF FLOWERS.

SO DESPITE THE FACT IT WAS A COMMON CUSTOM, IT KIND OF HAD A SPECIAL PLACE IN HER HEART.

THE PROVISION WAS NADE IN HER WILL.

FROM THAT TIME THEREAFTER, THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, LATER TH UNIVERSITY, REGULARLY WILL PLACES FLOWERS ON LYDIAS GRAVE DURING THE SEASON IN WHICH FRES FLOWERS ARE GROWN AND THEN PLACES OTHER APPROPRIATE ORNAMENTATION ON GRAVES DURING HOLIDAYS, PERHAPS A WREATH AT CHRISTMAS, THAT SORT OF THING.

LYDIA MOSS BRADLEY WASN'T THE ONLY FEMALE TO MAKE A MARK DURING THE 19TH CENTURY.

LUCY BROTHERSON, THE DAUGHTER O A MAYOR WAS THE FIR FEMALE ELECTED TO A SCHOOL BOARD IN TH STATE.

>> CIVIL WAR HAD SUCH A GREAT IMPACT ON THE WHOLE COUNTRY, AN PEORIA WAS NO DIFFERENT.

LUCY WAS OLD ENOUGH AT THE TIME TO BE INVOLVED IN MANY DIFFEREN SOCIETIES.

THERE WAS THE LADIES' SOLDIER AIDE SOCIETY OF PEORIA WHICH HELPED SERVE DINNERS TO SOLDIER THAT WOULD COME THROUGH TOWN, AND ABOUT MIDWAY THROUGH THE WAR WAR, IN 181863, IT CHANGED NAME AND WAS THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL LEAGUE.

LUCY WAS VERY ACTIVE IN THAT SOCIETY, ALSO, AND THEY WOULD HELP SOLDIERS THAT CAME THROUGH TOWN.

THEY WOULD HELP THE FAMILIES LIVING IN PEORIA TO GET BY BECAUSE IT WAS VERY HARD TO EX EXIST WITHOUT THE HUSBAND PROVIDING A LIVING.

THEY ALSO OPENED A SOLDIER'S HOME IN PEORIA, A SOLDIERS' RES HOME IN PEORIA, AND SHE WAS VER ACTIVE IN THAT.

THERE WERE SEVERAL WOMEN IN PEORIA THAT FELT SO COMPELLED T HONOR THESE MEN THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO RAISE FUNDS TO PUT A MEMORIAL MONUMENT UP ON SOLDIERS SOLDIERS' HILL RIGHT HERE IN SPRINGDALE CEMETERY.

THEY WERE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THEY WANTED THESE MEN TO BE REMEMBERED FOR WHAT THEY HAD DONE TO HELP SAVE OUR COUNTRY.

1899 PRESIDENT MC KINLEY, AND I THINK EVERY MEMBER OF HIS CABINET, EXCEPT ONE, CAME TO PEORIA TO HELP DEDICATE A NEW MONUMENT TO THE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS IN PEORIA COUNTY OCTOBER 6 OF 1899, THEY CAME TO THE PEORIA COURTHOUSE PLAZA AND DEDICATED THIS WONDERFUL MONUMENT THAT IS STILL THERE TODAY.

LUCY WAS VERY ACTIVE IN RAISING FUNDS.

IN FACT, WHAT SHE DID WAS SHE WENT AROUND TO THE SCHOOLS AND THE CHILDREN COLLECTED THEIR COPPER PENNYS, AND THAT'S A GOO AMOUNT OF THE FUNDS WERE RAISED BY DOING THAT, BY INVOLVING THE SCHOOL CHILDREN.

SHE DID SERVE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD.

SHE WAS ELECTED WITH NO OPPOSITION AT ALL WHICH, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING TO ACHIEVE THAT ESPECIALLY IN THE DAY AND AGE WHEN THIS HAPPENED WITH HER.

IT WAS VERY UNUSUAL.

IF FACT, SHE WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST WOMAN IN THE WHOLE STATE OF ILLINOIS TO BE ELECTED TO TH SCHOOL BOARD.

SHE SERVED VERY FAITHFULLY ON THE SCHOOL BOARD.

PEOPLE THOUGHT A LOT OF HER.

SHE WAS VERY HIGHLY RESPECTED I THE COMMUNITY, AND AFTER HER DEATH, SCHOOL WAS DEDICATED IN HER HONOR WITH HER NAME ON THE SCHOOL BUILDING.

TIME HAS TAKEN A TOLL ON MONUMENT FOR WHICH LUCY RAISED MONEY.

WHILE IT HAS CHANGED IN APPEARANCE, IT STILL SERVES TO REMIND US OF THE TOLL OF WAR.

>> THE FOCAL POINT IN SPRINGDAL CEMETERY ON SOLDIERS' HILL IS THE MONUMENT IN THE CENTER OF THE HILL.

IT WAS ORIGINALLY DEDICATED ON MEMORIAL DAY OF 1870.

ORIGINALLY IT HAD A FULL LIFE SIZE UNION SOLDIER WITH THREE MUSKETS STANDING AT THE BASE.

I STOOD THERE OVERLOOKING THE CIVIL WAR VETERANS.

IN MARCH OF 1977 IT WAS TOPPLED OVER.

IN MORE RECENT YEARS, THE FALLE CIVIL WAR SOLD HAS BEEN REPLACE WITH AN EAGLE WHICH SITS ON BAS WHICH WAS DEDICATED IN 1870, AN FOUR WORDS, "JUSTICE, LIBBY WHITE ERTY AND EQUALITY, AND PR PATRIOT" ARE ENGRAVED IN THE SIDES OF THAT BASE.

AND IN APRIL OF 1862, THE DIRECTORS OF SPRINGDALE CEMETER DEEDED A 40 BY 40-FOOT LOT HERE IN THE CENTER OF WHAT WE NOW KNOW AISLED SOLDIERS' HILL FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE TO BE A BURIAL SITE, TO BE A FINAL RESTING PLACE OF SOLDIERS WHO WERE EITHER DIED IN THE CAMPS O RETURNED HERE TO PEORIA TO BE BURIED.

WELL, THIS JUNE OF 1862, CORPORAL JOHN GANGRICH'S BODY WAS RETURNED TO PEORIA.

HIS WAS THE FIRST BODY LAID TO REST ON SOLD'S HILL.

DURING THE REST OF THAT YI, ELI ELIAS, PHILLIPS, WILLIAM GRUB, JAMES GRANT, AND JAMES SHEPHERD BODIES' WERE RETURNED TO PEORIA AND BURIED IN A ROW ON SOLDIERS SOLDIERS'S HILL.

THEY WERE THE FIRST BURIALS ON THE HILL.

BLACKS OF THAT ERA DID NOT HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS WHITES.

BUT ON SOLDIERS'S HILL THEY WER BURIED SIDE BY SIDE WITH WHITE SOLDIERS.

THE ONLY DISTINCTION APPEARED O THE MARKER AS INDICATED BY THE ABBREVIATION FOR U.S.

COLORED INFANTRY.

>>WHEN THIS WAS DEDICATED IN 1872, THERE WAS FOUR CANNONS HERE, RIFLES BEGINNING TO US BY U.S. GOVERNMENT BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS.

THEY STAYED UNTIL 1985 WHEN A PEORIA STREET INSPECTOR DECIDED THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO USE IT IN THE REENACTING GROUP, AND HE PURCHASED IT FROM THE CEMETERY ILLEGALLY FOR $800.

IT LATER SOLD FOR $35,000.

NOW, THE OTHER THREE CANNONS WERE TAKEN OFF OF THE HILL AND SOLD BY LARRY LEECH.

WE SUED HIM, AND GOT THE THREE CANNONS BACK BECAUSE PHILANTHROPIST IN OHIO DIDN'T REALIZE THEY WERE STOLEN PROPERTY AND HE RETURNED THEM VERY RELUCTANTLY, BUT HE WAS GLAD THEY WERE RESTORED IN A FASHION THAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN.

THERE ARE TWO CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS BURIED A SPRINGDALE.

ONE IS WHO ARE AS CAPRON.

HE WAS BORN IN LAUREL COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1840 AND MOVED TO TEXAS 1854 AND SETTLED IN ILLINOIS WHEN HE WAS A TEEN-AGER TEEN-AGER, FARMER.

HIS DAD WAS A BIG FARMER OUT TO JUBILEE COLLEGE.

AT AGE 20, CAPRON ENLISTED IN THE ARMY.

WE DON'T HAVE A LOT KNOWING ABOUT HIM IN PARTICULAR OTHER THAN HE WAS ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN CHILDREN.

HE SERVED IN THE 8TH CALVARY WHERE HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR POST-HUMUSLY, IN 1865.

THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE -- NO ONE KNEW HE WAS GOING TO WIN THE MEDAL, BUT HIS ACTIONS NOT ONLY IN THE EIGHTH, BUT 14TH CALVARY EXEMPLARY ACTIONS.

WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN 1864, SOM OF HIS FELLOW FRIENDS SAID THER WAS NO FINER INDIVIDUAL THAN HORACE CAPRON JUNIOR.

UP ON THE SOLDIERS' HILL GROUP VOLUNTEER, WE FOUND OUT -- UNDERSTOOD THERE WERE TWO MEDAL OF HONOR PEOPLE HERE.

WE WENT TO THE WEB AND STARTED LOOKING FOR THEM AND FOUND OUT THERE WERE TWO, IN FACT.

WE FOUND OUT THAT CAPRON IN THE CEMETERY FOUND HE NEVER HAD A STONE AS FAR AS THEY CAN TELL.

IN FACT, THEY ARE NOT REAL POSITIVE.

MAYBE A COUPLE OF AN INCHES, COULD BE SIDE WHERE HE IS BURIE HERE.

THE SECOND MEDAL OF HONOR WINNE BURIED IN SPRINGDALE.

HE WAS BORN IN TRANS.

HE IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES, APPARENTLY SETTLED INTO LEXINGTON, ILLINOIS, AREA, WHER HIS ENROLLMENT AND ENLISTMENT INTO THE CIVIL WAR WAS ABOUT AG 33.

WE DON'T KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT HI IN PARTICULAR.

HE WAS A CARPENTER BY TRADE, ENTERED THE SERVICE, FOUGHT AT VICKSBURG WHERE HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR SOME 31 YEAR LATER.

I THINK IT PRETTY INTERESTING, THEY CALLED FOR VOLUNTEERS OF THE STORMING PARTY TO TRY TO BREACH THE PARPET AS THE BREAST BREASTWORKS AT VICKSBURG SO THE COULD SIEGE THE TOWN TO BEGIN THE SIEGE.

AND THERE WAS 150 VOLUNTEERS AL TO BE NON-MARRIED, AND 300 PEOPLE VOLUNTEERED FOR IT.

GERSHWIN, FROM THE 116TH COMPAN F. HIS PEOPLE, AS PART OF THE PARTICIPATION.

AS I SAID, THERE WAS 150, AND 7 WERE AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR.

THAT MEANT 72 OF THEM WERE KILLED IN THE ACTION.

PEORIA'S EARLY CEMETERIES WERE PRINTING PROBLEMS BY 1850 INCLUDING THIS LOCATION THAT IS NOW A PARK AT MC CLURE AND NORT STREETS.

DISEASED BODIES DECOMPOSED IN THE WOODEN COFFINS, CONTACT CONTAMINATING WATER.

EARLY EMBALMING TECHNIQUES ADDE TO THE CONTAMINATION OF THE FLUIDS IN THE EMBALMING FLUID LIKE ARSENIC.

THESE WERE LOCATED IN THE INNER CITY WHERE SPACE WAS LIMITED.

>> CITY PLANNERS IN PEORIA WERE FACED WITH MULTIPLE QUESTIONS, WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE FILLED CEMETERY WHERE WE CAN NO LONGER USE IT?

WE HAVE THE DANGER OF GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION ALONG THE RIVERFRONT.

WE HAVE THE NOXIOUS VAPORS RISING OUT OF THE GROUND THAT WERE BELIEVED TO BE AS HAZARDOU AS THE GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION, AGAIN, BECAUSE MEDICINE WAS NOT AS ADVANCED AS IT IS TODAY.

SO, WE SEE THE FORMER CEMETERIES CEMETERIES, THE OLD MASONIC IC GROUND, THOSE WERE ACTUALLY CLOSED BY THEIR MANAGERS, AND FAMILIES WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISINTER THE FAMILY'S LOVED ONES AND HAVE THEM MOVED.

THE LOGICAL PLACE TO MOVE THEM OF COURSE WOULD BE TO SPRINGDALE SPRINGDALE.

SPRINGDALE, I THINK, FITS PERFECTLY INTO THE GENERAL CONCEPT OF THE GARDEN CEMETERY OR WHAT HISTORIANS TODAY REFER TO AS THE RURAL CEMETERY MOVEMENT.

AND THAT MOVEMENT WAS TO GET CEMETERIES, GRAVEYARDS, ACTUALLY ACTUALLY, OUT TO OF THE POPULATED AREAS AND INTO RURAL AREAS.

IN THE EARLY 1830'S, AN INDIVIDUAL IN BOSTON DECIDED THAT IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO CREATE AN AREA OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON IN CAMBRIDGE, SPECIFICALLY WHERE IT WAS STILL RURAL AREA SO THAT THEY COULD DEDICATE A PORTION OF THAT LANDSCAPE TO THE INTER.

OF THE DEAD.

THAT WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF HAVING THE DEAD CONTINUE TO BE INTERRED IN THE CENTER OF BOSTON BOSTON, IN THE OLD CHURCH YARD, AND AT THE SAME TIME, IT WOULD CREATE A MORE PASS PASTORAL OR SCENIC ENVIRONMENT.

WE SEE INTO THE 1840'S, 1850'S, THE DEVELOPMENT IN MOST POPULATION CENTERS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE GARDEN CEMETERIES THAT WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NATURAL TOPOGRAPHY, WOULD BUILD UPON TH GENERAL ROMANTIC NOTION THAT WA POPULAR IN VICTORIAN AMERICA AN ENGLAND AT THE TIME OF THE BECOMING MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THE CONCEPT OF DEATH AND MORTALITY.

THREE LANDOWNERS SOLD PROPERTY TO INCORPORATE SPRINGDALE IN 1855.

ALL THREE ARE BURIED HERE.

THOMAS BALDWIN, WILLIAM HALL AN HARVEY LIGHTNER, WHO HAS THE TALLEST OBLISK IN THE CEMETERY.

THE ROLLING HILLS PROVIDED SCEN RY FOR THE PUBLIC TO ENJOY.

SOME FAMILIES AVOIDED STRAIGHT ROW CONFIGURATIONS AND OPTED FO CIRCULAR BURIAL PLOTS, ANOTHER TRADITION CHANGE FROM THE CEMETERY.

THE GREAT WEALTH OF PEORIA'S WHISKEY ERA CREATED MANY LARGE AND ORNATE CEMETERY MONUMENTS.

IN ALL, PEORIA WOULD EVENTUALLY BE HOME TO 76 DISTILLERIES.

AS YOU WALK THROUGH CEMETERY, YOU WILL FIND ALBERT AND EDWARD LIZE, PHILIP ZELL.

, ELBERT JACK, WILLIAM HALL, JOHN GIBBS.

, LEGENDARY NAMES: EDWARD EASTON PROVIDES TONS OF GRAIN O CORN, AND THEY HAD MILLIONS IN THE STOCKYARD TO MAKE HIS TREMENDOUS FORTUNE.

THE WEALTH ENABLED THE DISTILLERS TO BUILD-UP THE CITY.

THEY ALL COMBINED THEIR MONEY T BUY THE PARK.

THEY CONTRIBUTED MANY TO THE CULTURAL LIFE.

HENHE BERRY BUILT THE OPERA HOUSE.

WILLIAM HALL BUILT THE PALACE THEATER.

JOSEPH GREENHOST DONATED THE GA HALL WHICH EXISTS TODAY, AND BERG NER'S BUILDING WAS ACTUALL THE WALLNER BUILDING WHERE THE WHISKEY TRUSTS HAD THEIR OFFICES OFFICES.

OF COURSE, AS YOU WALK THROUGH SPRINGDALE, YOU CAN FIND THE FIRST DISTILLER IN THE 1840'S, MYRON S CULL.

>>AS THE WHICH KI BARONS PROSPERED, THERE WERE A FEW CITIZENS WHO STOOD IN OPPOSITION OPPOSITION.

ONE WAS LUCY TENG.

LUCY WORE A WHITE RIBBON MOST O HER LIFE, AND THAT WAS TO TELL PEOPLE THAT SHE WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE ABUSE OF ALCOHOL IN THE COMMUNITY, ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT IT CAUSED.

SHE WORE THIS WHITE RIBBON TO LET PEOPLE KNOW SHE WAS A MEMBE OF WHAT WAS CALLED THE "WHITE RIBBON SOCIETY" IN PEORIA.

THERE WAS A WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION GROUP THAT WAS RAISED IN PEORIA.

LATER ON, THE WHITE RIBBON CLUB WAS DISSOLVED AND BECAME PART O THE PEORIA WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.

AMONG THE THINGS THEY DID TO HELP PEOPLE, THEY OFFERED GOSPE TEMPERANCE MEETINGS IN PEORIA FOR MEN AND WOMEN BOTH, AND THE ALSO HELPED SUPPORT VERY MANY EVANGELICAL MISSIONS.

>> THERE WAS ALSO AN ANTI SLAVERY MOVEMENT AT THAT TIME.

MARK MORAL AKIN WAS ONE OF THE LEADING ABOLITIONISTS, HAVING T MOVE TO PEORIA TO LOOK AT SOME LAND HE OBTAINED IN A MILITARY TRACT.

>>IN 18345, HE ATTENDED LAND SALES IN QUINCY.

HE PURCHASED SOME LAND, AND HE ALSO MET GEORGE BESTER, AND GEORGE ANNE MARK WENT INTO BUSINESS FOR AWHILE, AS LAND AGENTS DEALING PRIMARILY IN LAN IN THE MILITARY TRACT.

MARK AKIN MADE PEORIA HOME.

HE CONTINUED IN REAL ESTATE THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

HE PURCHASED MUCH VALUABLE LAND SOME OF WHICH HAD COAL IN IT.

HE INVESTED IN COAL MINES.

MARK AKIN SERVED HIS COMMUNITY HE WAS ASSESSOR, HE SERVED AS SCHOOL INSPECTOR AND OTHER POSITIONS.

HE WAS ATTEMPT PRANCE MAN.

IN POLITICS, I WAS FIRST A WHIG AND THEN A REPUBLICAN, AND HE SUPPORTED STRONGLY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ALTHOUGH HE VOTED FOR HORACE GREELEY WHEN HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT.

HE WAS FIRST A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH IN PEORIA AND LATER IN 1855 HELPED FOUND THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

BU MARK LONG IDENTIFIED HIMSELF WITH THE MAIN STREET CHURCH WHICH WAS KNOWN AS THE ABOLITIO CHURCH BECAUSE MARK WAS A STAUNCH AP LITIONIST.

THE MAIN STREET CHURCH WAS ORGANIZED IN 1834 AS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BUT BECAME CONGREGATIONAL IN 1847.

HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BELLS BELLS.

HE RANG THE BELLS FOR BRINGING PEOPLE FOR ANTI SLAVELY.

THIS BELL BECAME KNOWN AS THE LIBERTY BELL, THE FIRST BELL HEARD IN PEORIA FOR GOD, FREEDOM FREEDOM, AND NATIVE LAND.

IN 1857, THE CHURCH HAD A MUCH LARGER CHURCH BUILDING AND HAD MUCH LARGER BELL.

MARK WENT TO THE CHURCH ON THE OCCASION OF EVERY UNION VICTORY DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND HE RA THE BELL.

MARK AKIN ALSO WORKED ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.

AND FOR THIS TYPE OF ACTIVITY ARE FOR HIS STRONG ANTI SLAVERY CONVICTIONS, HE EARNED THE TITL OF "THE APOSTLE OF LIBERTY."

MAIN STREET CONGREGATIONAL BECAME KNOWN AS THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN 1875.

IN 1936, THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BURNED DOWN, AND THE LITTLE ANTI SLAVERY BELL WAS DESTROYED IN THE FIRE.

IN 1937, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL AND SECOND PRESBYTERIAN UNITED TO FORM FIRST FEDERATED CHURCH.

THE LIBERTY BELL, ONE THAT WAS RUNG ON THE OCCASION OF EVERY UNION F EVER EVERY UNION VICTORY IS NOW ON DISPLAY IN TH CHURCH GROUNDS.

A STREET IN PEORIA IS NAMED FOR MARK AKIN, ONE OF 200 LOCAL STREETS NAMED FOR PEOPLE BURIED IN SPRINGDALE.

♪♪ A STATE MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL IN PEORIA WAS NAMED FOR DR. DR. GURGE ZELLA ARE R, WHO BEGA FIGHTING HIS CAREER FIGHTING CHOLERA IN THE PHILIPPINES IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.

WHEN DR. ZELLAR GOT BACK IN THE PHILIPPINES IT WAS 1902.

PEORIA STATE HOSPITAL HAD ALREADY OPENED FEBRUARY 10, 190 SO THEY HAD AN ACTING SUPERINTENDENT.

HE CAME BACK AND FOUND BARS ON THE WINDOWS AND THE DOORS LOCKED LOCKED.

HE WAS VERY A PAULED AT ALL OF THIS.

HE DECIDED THAT THAT WAS NO WAY TO TREAT THE -- EVEN THOUGH THE CALLED THEM IN CURABLE, AND UN UNFORTUNATE, THAT WAS NOTED NO WAY TO TREAT THEM.

THEY WERE PEOPLE JUST LIKE ALL OF REST OF US.

THEIR SICKNESS WAS THIS THEIR MIND, NOT IN THEIR BODIES.

DR. ZELLAR TOOK THE BARS OFF TH WINDOWS, AND HE TOOK THE RESTRAINTS AWAY.

HE WOULD HANG THEM UP WHEN THE PEOPLE FROM THE HOUSES CAME IN WITH RESTRAINTS.

HE DID AN EIGHT HOUR DAY BECAUSE HE KNEW THE ATTENDANTS WEREN'T ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THE PATIENTS SUFFICIENTLY WITH 14 HOUR DAYS.

HE PUT WOMEN ON THE MEN'S WARDS.

HE ALSO DID NOT LIKE THE NAME ILLINOIS ASYLUM FOR THE IN CURE CURABLE INSANE.

HE DIDN'T FEEL THEY WERE INCURE INCURABLE.

SO BY 1907, THE NAME WAS CHANGE TO ILLINOIS GENERAL HOSPITAL FO THE INSANE.

1909, IT WAS CHANGED TO PEORIA STATE HOSPITAL.

♪♪ PEORIA'S FIRST PHYSICIAN ALS SERVED IN A WAR, DR. RUDOLPH ROU ROUSS WAS A SURGEON IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND RETURNED TO HIS CIT OF BIRTH, NEW YORK.

DR. ROUSS LEFT NEW YORK AND CAM TO PEORIA IN 1832.

AND HE SHORTLY AFTER THAT, HE BUILT A BUILDING DOWNTOWN AS HI RESIDENCE AND OFFICE AT THE CORNER OF MAIN AND NORTH JEFFERSON STREET WHERE THE COMMERCE BANK BUILDING NOW STANDS.

I THINK IT WAS 1832 OR '33, THE STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED A LAW THAT TOWNS AND CITIES COULD INCORPORATE THE STATE OF ILLINOIS FOR THE FIRST TIME.

AND IN 19 -- OR 1835, THEN PEORIA VOTED TO BE A TOWN, AND THEY ELECTED A FIVE MAN BOARD O TRUSTEES, AND THAT BOARD ELECTE DR. ROUSS TO BE THEIR PRESIDENT.

IN 1857, HE BUILT ROUSS HALL UP MAIN STREET ALMOST TO THE ALLEY.

HIS OFFICE BUILDING AND THE ROUS ROUSS HALL BUILDING WERE THREE STORIES HIGH, AND THAT WAS THE PLACE IN ITS DAY BEFORE THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE LATER IN THE 1800'S.

IT WAS WHERE -- WELL, THEY STARTED WITH A BROAD WAY SHOW, BROADWAY ACTORS ON THEIR FIRST NIGHT.

IT WAS EVERYBODY PLAYED THERE I THEIR DAY BACK THEN.

MAYABLE MORROW WAS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PLAYS MIME.

SHE DIRECTED PLAYS IN PEORIA AN WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF PEORIA PLAYERS.

SHE WAS WONDERFUL HOSTESS IN PEORIA, AND SHE ENTERTAINED THE PEORIA GLITERAITY.

SHE BEGAN A THEATER IN THE CARRIAGE HOUSE ON THE RIVERSIDE OF FLANNIGAN HOUSE MUSEUM WHICH SHE OWNED AND SOLD TO THE PEORI HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN 1962.

SHE HAD HER OWN THEATER COMPANY THERE, AND SHE PRODUCED PLAYS AND DIRECTED PLAYS.

THE SEATING WAS ABOUT FOR 50 PEOPLE.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE CARRIAGE HOUSE BURNED DOWN.

BUT SHE WAS THE DIRECTOR PAR E. CELLENCE IN PEORIA.

ANOTHER PEORIAIAN, HERBERT JAMISON LED THE PEORIA HIGH SCHOOL TRACK TEAM TO STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1893.

THREE YEARS LATER, HE WON THE OLYMPIC SILVER MEDAL IN THE 440- 440-YARD DASH WHILE A STUDENT A PRINCETON, UNIVERSITY.

>>WHEN HE GRADUATED FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, HE CAME CAME BACK TO PEORIA, GOT A JOB WITH HIS FATHER'S COMPANY AND H WAS A VERY SOCIALLY PROMINENT YOUNG MAN, ENDED UP MARRYING ANOTHER SOCIALLY PROMINENT YOUN WOMAN, CAROLINE, AND THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN BORN OVER ABOUT A 15 YEAR PERIOD OF TIME.

THEY HAD TWINS WERE THE LAST TW BORN IN 1914.

BUT HERB HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL INSURANCE BUSINESS, AND UP UNTI AT LEAST THE TIME OF THE DEPRESSION, HE STARTED HAVING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.

IN 1931, HIS TWIN DAUGHTER DIED.

TWO YEARS LATER, THE TWIN SON WHO WAS NATIONAL GUARDSMAN WAS IN HIS BUNK AND THE SOLDIER IN HIS NEXT BUNK WAS CLEANING HIS RIFLE AND SHOT AND KILLED TOM.

IT MADE THE PEORIA PAPERS BECAUSE THEY WERE SO WELL-KNOWN.

IT WAS JUST A TRAGEDY.

THERE WERE COUNTS THAT SAID HER JAMIE SON NEVER GOT OVER THE LOSS OF HIS SON ESPECIALLY, TWO YEARS SO CLOSE.

HERB HAD A TOUGH TIME DURING TH DEPRESSION.

A LOT OF THE THINGS WERE WEREN' DISCUSSED BECAUSE THEY WERE VER SOCIALLY PROMINENT FAMILY BECAUSE HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY CLUB OF PEORIA AT ONE TIME.

BUT THINGS JUST GOT A LITTLE TOO TOUGH FOR HIM, AND THE HEADLINE HE MADE THE HEADLINES THE LAST TIME ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE PAPER SAYING THAT HE HAD JUMPED OFF THE FRANLIN BRIDGE AND DROWNED.

TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH, FORTUNE AN FAILURE, IMAGINATION AND INGENUITY.

NEARLY 80,000 STORIES ARE LOCATED IN SPRINGDALE CEMETERY.

FROM THOSE WHO LED TO THOSE WHO FOLLOWED, ALL OF THEM NOW SIDE BY SIDE WITHIN THESE ROLLING HILLS.

>>YOU HAVE THIS MELTING OF CLAS AND GENDER AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE TOGETHER IN ONE LOCATION SO THA BY SIMPLY WALKING THROUGH SPRINGDALE AND EVEN PICKING ONE SECTION, THERE ARE VERY FASCINATING STORIES THAT CAN BE LEARNED.

PRODUCTION OF SPRINGDALE, MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME WAS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART FROM TOM