Chicago History Museum..
Chicago History Museum has a couple of hidden treasures in it's backyard .. In the hedges on the east side of the Chicago History Museum, one can find ...
# A relic from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871
# A Revolutionary War chain..
In these hedges along the semi-circular plaza on the east side of the Chicago History Museum, one can spot:
# This metal blob is the melted remains of a hardware store, destroyed in the 1871 fire..
# A Revolutionary War chain..
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2 comments:
Very interesting piece of information.
Thanks for sharing.
According to Lincoln Diamant in his book "Chaining the Hudson" (Carol Publishing Group, 2004), the links outside the Chicago History Museum were part of a set of links fraudulently represented as a section of The Great Chain (forged during the Revolution) and sold to Chicago sweets manufacturer Charles Frederick Gunther in the 1880s. The Chicago History Museum referred to the chain as a fraud in its newsletter in 1973. It's an interesting story!
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