Year

Historical Event

• Mr. Lyman, Mr. Harvey and Silas Meacham arrive.

• The settlement of Roselle and between 12 to 15 families.

• The stagecoach line between Chicago and Galena was named Lake Street.

• The Roselle Methodist Church was established by settlers from Cornwall, England.

• The corner of Roselle and Irving Park Roads had a grain mill, a flax mill and Henry Holstein's house.  Mr. Holstein was the owner of the grain mill.

• Roselle Hough had the railroad rerouted from Bloomingdale to Roselle in order to transport his flax to market.  He paid the surveyor $10,000 to change the route.

• Roselle's first public school started as a one-room building.  The first teacher was Miss Carrie Eddy.  She earned $25 a month.

• The businesses in Roselle were a general store, the Illinois Linen Company, a grain mill, a blacksmith, a meat market, a hardware store and a harness maker.

• The first telephone service began.

• The Becker house was the first to have running water through the use of a windmill.

• The first bank in Roselle was organized by J. Henry Hattendorf.

• The Roselle Volunteer Fire Department started.
• The first mail delivery service began. 

• Trinity Lutheran Church was organized.

• The first gas lamps on the streets were lit each night by a lamplighter.

• The population of Roselle was 225 people.

• Electricity came to Roselle.
• Roselle incorporated as a village, separate from Bloomingdale.

• Enrollment in the public school was 40 students.

• The population of Roselle was 800 people.

• A public library was started at Saulk Pioneer School.

• The population of Roselle was 1,038.

• Roselle was proclaimed the "Village of Roses".

• Enrollment in the elementary schools was 1,147 students.

• The population of Roselle was 5,000 people.

• The population of Roselle was 19,603 people.