My Chicago kids spent a few days last week visiting Galena, Illinois and filling our family photo albums with some fresh new pictures.
Just an hour away from my home in Wisconsin, Galena has always been one of my favorite places to visit. When I was a kid both my father and grandfather worked on construction projects there, putting in the sewer pipes and building a levee around the town to protect it from flooding.
My family history with the town goes back many years. But the origins of the town go back even further to when the first miners started digging for lead back in the early 1800s. Galena became a bustling town while Chicago was still a little village along the swampy shore of Lake Michigan. The Galena business district is little changed from the early days when the stores supplied the items that the miners needed, although the retail selections are much different today than they were then.
85% of the buildings in town are on the National Register of Historic Places. Ulysses S Grant worked in his father's leather shop, before he went on to become the 18th President of the United States.
Grant statue
Abraham Lincoln participated in one of the presidential debates with Stephen A Douglas from the balcony of the DeSoto Hotel. You can rent a beautifully decorated room in the old hotel for around $150 per night.
Desoto Hotel
The town has a feeling about it of being forgotten by time.
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It looks a charming place and some great weather too.
Actually the temperatures were ridiculously hot with blazing sunshine. 38c
Oh wow, that's very hot! I hope they managed to keep cool!
Looks like ice cream and lemonade would be in high demand in those places! 🤔🤓
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It may be that the city gives the feeling of being forgotten by time, but your images give me serenity and peace. It's like riding a time machine or going through a quantum portal and going to a magical place full of history.
I really enjoyed this content of yours which has impeccable images.
Greetings from this side of the planet.
Thanks so much! It is the perfect place for history buffs.
85 percent historical buildings would be really a big number. Historical buildings and monuments are my weakness.
Mine too! I love learning and feeling the history of a place!
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Looking great place to visit.
It is a beautiful little town!
It seems like a place full of history. I would have a great time walking those streets and learning about them. Thank you for bringing us a little closer to there. 🤗♥️
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! help(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoI love learning about the history that happened so near to me. It is a town packed full of stories.
Oh, look here! Even tarot readings in Chicago 😁 Never visited states, but these are cool pictures 💙
There is lots to see and do here!
That’s wonderful your family has such a history with the town,
It looks lovely. Especially the cobble stones.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Have a great midweek 👋🏻😊
I only wish I could remember all the stories that my dad and grandpa told about working there!
Oh that would have been wonderful… sometimes we don’t remember.
I love the old family pics! I'm scratching my head trying to remember if I have ever been to Galena. Seems like I should have been. Been to Dubuque several times so seems likely. I like civil war history and have read US Grants memoir which is quite interesting but not a very easy read haha. I love the old downtowns with the brick storefronts
That's my grandpa Clyde in the old crane.
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Lovely and lovely !!!!
Great reportage with history. We had a funny incident in the city. When the cinema was being repaired and the signs were removed, a similar mosaic with inscriptions from the last century was found behind it.
I love those old ghost signs!
All these places looks so beautiful and amazing. Thanks for sharing.
It is a lovely little town. More photos to come!
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The buildings looks very old and I wonder how beautiful the city will look with old buildings since you said 85% of the buildings there are historical...
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I enjoyed the story of history and how your father and grandfather are part of it.
To me, it is great that time forgot it as the architecture of the older buildings and vibes of the city are much more pleasant than what other places have chosen to replace theirs with.