Bloomingdale, Illinois (Images of America Series)

This photographic journal traces Bloomingdale's development chronologically from its earliest days through its sesquicentennial celebration. The area claimed in 1833 by the Meacham brothers, who traveled from the east in search of land and opportunities, encompassed parts of present-day Roselle, Medinah, and Cloverdale. The Meacham brothers and those who followed formed an agricultural community that thrived in its location on a major thoroughfare, the Chicago Galena Highway. Retail was an important part of Bloomingdale by the time the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad came through the northern part of Bloomingdale Township in 1873. Largely ?Smalltown, USA? for a number of years, Bloomingdale came into its own in the mid-1970s with an explosion of population, business, and prosperity.Erickson, Annamarie is the author of 'Bloomingdale, Illinois (Images of America Series)', published 2008 under ISBN 9780738551982 and ISBN 0738551988.