In 1864, Sanford Peck ran away to join the Union Army at age 14. After the war he settled in the Barrington area and has living descendants to this day.

 

The Deicke family built this building which sits Main Street and Ash.

General Benjamin Sweet, a Lombard resident, was the commander of Camp Douglas - a Chicago prisoner of war camp in for Confederate soldiers.

The Carriage House was built in 1870, one year after Babcock's Grove became the town of Lombard. Lombard became a village in 1903.

Pure Oil Station at SW corner of Parkside and Main Street.

Although the Roath family owned more than one service station, this one was at the fork at St. Charles and Crescent.

Henderson's Department Store - NE corner of St. Charles Road & Park Ave.

The  southwest corner of Park and St. Charles: originally the Babcock's Grove House then changed to Lombard Hotel.  It was the site of the first pub/dram shop in the community.  The 1858 building was renovated in 1915.