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Local History

Edgewater’s history has many aspects and can be categorized in many ways. We’ve developed several categories.

Click an item in the menu on the left under Local History for a topic to explore. This section is under construction and not all links at the left open finished pages.

Winthrop looking south from Bryn Mawr

Local History Menu

  • Advertisements
  • Architects
  • Buildings
  • Businesses
  • Census
  • Condominiums
  • Churches
  • Developers
  • Directories
  • Edgewater Beach Hotel
  • Edgewater Hospital
  • Historic sites
  • Immigration
  • Lists
  • Lost Edgewater
  • Maps
  • Neighborhoods
  • Oral histories
  • Organizations
  • Our home tours
  • Parks
  • Politics
  • Reminiscences
  • Schools
  • Slide shows
  • Statistics
  • Timeline
  • Transportation
  • Planning your visit
  • Collections/Archives
  • Research your home
  • Research other things
  • Kids corner
  • Living Treasures
  • Oral Histories
  • Volunteer
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Museum Exhibits

  • The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: One Juror's Ordeal
  • Edgewater Beach Hotel, 100 Years Later
  • The Edgewater Beach Hotel Collection
  • The Historic Districts of Edgewater (Bryn Mawr, Lakewood Balmoral and Andersonville)
  • A memory of the EHS Museum building when it once housed Engine Company #79

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