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In 1836, Erastus Patterson, his wife and their five children arrived from Vermont in the wooded hill that is today called Lloyd Park. The Pattersons decided to settle and build a tavern for travelers along the Green Bay Trail from Fort Dearborn, Chicago to Fort Howard, Wisconsin.
In 1854, Charles Peck and Walter S. Gurnee, president of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad Co., created the original subdivision of Winnetka. The village was named "Winnetka" after a Native American phrase meaning "beautiful land." The first public school was established in 1859 and sat on the present-day Village Green. In 1869, Charles Peck donated the Village Green to Winnetka for park purposes. The same year, Winnetka was incorporated as a village with a population of 450.
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