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Plainfield, Illinois was founded in August 1834 by Chester Ingersoll, who platted a town just north of the 1828 settlement of Walker's Corners. In December that year, Levi Arnold bought the land directly north of Ingersoll's and began to subdivide it; this area would later become the historic district.
Plainfield is located in northwestern Will County. The village limits extend west into the eastern part of Kendall County. Plainfield is bordered to the north by the city of Naperville, to the northeast by the village of Bolingbrook, to the east by the village of Romeoville, and to the south by the city of Joliet. Farmland in Kendall County is ...
Denmark is an unincorporated community in Perry County, Illinois, United States. Denmark is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) southeast of Cutler. History.
Little is known about Flanders, other than that he was the first constable of Plainfield. By the time of his death, he had amassed a 300-acre (120 ha) land holding. The three surviving Flanders children received a one-third share in the building. [1] Only two buildings remain in Plainfield that were constructed before the Flanders House.
The church was built in 1880 to house a congregation formed in 1869, which was made up of immigrants from Lolland, Denmark who had begun to loosely organize two years prior. This congregation was the oldest in the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America , which was not officially formed until 1874.
The building consisted of a small brick passenger / cargo depot in the front facing the street and track plus a large, two-story repair facility and power conversion AC to DC substation at the rear.