- Arbor Vista Subdivision
- SW corner of Section 31 Warren Township, Lake County, Illinois
- Absolute SW corner of Warren Township
- Legal: ROBERT BARTLETTS ARBOR VISTA
- Tax Code Area: 08066 - WARREN TWP 066
- Pre - 1818
- Illinois River Potawatomi Indians until August 1829, when economic and resource pressures forced the tribe to sell much of their land in northern Illinois to the U.S. government for $12,000 cash, an additional $12,000 in goods, plus an annual delivery of 50 barrels of salt.
- 1818
- Illinois became the 21st U.S. state
- 1829
- Waukegan established - named: Potawatomi: wakaigin (Fortress or Little Fort)
- 1835
- Willard Jones (36) stakes a claim for a 160 acre homestead, built a log house on what is now known as Arbor Vista of Lot 31 Warren Township
- Cook County established (included land now in Lake and McHenry County)
- 1836
- Village of Independence Grove (now Libertyville) established
- McHenry County established (included land now in Lake County)
- 1837
- Independence Grove name changed to Libertyville
- Libertyville Post Office established
- 1839
- Libertyville re-named Burlington
- Burlington/Libertyville named county seat
- Lake County established present day borders
- 1840
- Grayslake settled
- 1841
- Waukegan named county seat
- Burlington re-named back to Libertyville
- 1842
- 1843
- Half Day Inn established
- 1847
- 4 Jones children pass away due to scarlett fever
- Hainesville becomes incorporated
- 1848
- 1849
- Jennie Jones Ford is born in Arbor Vista
- Waukegan Incorporated as a town
- Avon Township , Libertyville Township established
- Warren Township established by settlers who came from the town of Warren, New York
- 1850
- Census -
- 1851
- Lake and McHenry Plank Road is completed from Waukegan to Hainesville
- 1859
- Waukegan Incorporated as a city
- 1860
- Census
- 2 Jones children pass away due to scarlett fever
- 1861
- American Civil War begins
- 1864
- DeWitt Jones(22) enlists in Company D, 146th Illinois Infantry,
- 1865
- American Civil Ware ends
- DeWitt Jones was an escort for the President Lincoln funeral cortege
- DeWitt Jones returns from Civil War
- 1870
- Census
- 1877
- Lake and McHenry Plank Road ceases operation
- 1880
- Census
- 1886
- Wisconsin Central railroad station in Grayslake completed
- Grayslake platted as a subdivision
- Fourth class post office established in Grayslake
- 1867
- DeWitt Jones married Ella Burrows in Grayslake
- 1872
- Willard Jones (72) passes away
- 1870
- George Jones born to DeWitt and Ella
- 1875
- Ella Burrows Jones passes away
- 1872
- Fred Chard (1872-1945) born / owned Arbor Vista / fire chief of
- 1879
- Libertyville's Cook Mansion built Ansel Brainerd Cook
- 1887
- Willard Jones homestead destroyed by fire
- Marcia Jones/wife of Willard (77) passes away
- Jennie Jones Ford/daughter of Willard and her husband Warren Ford take possession of Jones Homestead
- 1890
- Census
- 1895
- Grayslake incorporated as a village
- Frame school house moved to Whitney Street and became village hall
- 1897
- Electric lights started to be installed in business section
- 1898
- Local phone service started
- 1899
- Long distance phone service began
- Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad put in line
- F.C. Wilbur Lumber Company burned
- Grayslake Fire Department organized
- 1900
- Grayslake had 416 residents
- Census
- 1907
- Fred Chard (124 acres)
- W.S. Hawthorn (36 acres ???)
- 1913
- Dobe Commercial Building built (who was the original owner?)
- 1916
- DeWitt Jones (73) passes away
- 1918
- Center Avenue (present day Lake Street) paved
- 1920
- Grayslake had 736 residents
- 1925
- Fred Dobe moves to Grayslake/Arbor Vista
- 1926
- 1929
- 32784 N Forest Dobe Estate (stable???)
- 1930
- 1937
- 1939
- Illinois takes aerial photographs of entire state
- 1940
- Leo DeMeyer establishes Grayslake Feed
- Census
- Fred Dobe (69) tree expert/tree farm, Marie Dobe (72), Johanna (44)
- 1949
- Grayslake Outdoor Family Theater opens - owned by Fred Dobe
- 1959
- 32225 N Pine Built
- 1960
- Frederic W. Dobe passes away
- 32814 N FOREST DR Bartlett Model Home
- 1962
- 1990
- Almond Marsh Nature Preserve established
- 2007
- Leo B DeMeyer passes findagrave obit
