Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
“Glidden Homestead is located in DeKalb, a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. It was the home to the famed inventor of barbed wire Joseph Glidden.”
Wikipedia article Joseph F. Glidden House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on DeKalb Township in Past and Present of DeKalb County, Illinois, published 1907 names De Kalb. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
As has been stated in a previous chapter of the County History, in 1832 the army under General Whiteside, numbering about twenty-two hundred, consisting of one regiment of regulars and tin.' balance of volunteers, marched from Stillman's Run to the month of the Kishwaukee, thence following the south side of that stream to the Pottawatomie village mi section one. where they camped and found some of the plunder taken from Stillman's men by the savages. The Indians had been taken from this locality in about 1S35, lint many marks are found today of their village. When the white men first came to Coltonville they found buried, while a number of papooses were wrapped in bark and suspended among the branches of the trees. It has been stated that a company of United States mounted troops at about 1835 escorted the Indians from this village to Paw Paw grove in the southwest corner of the county, preparatory to removal, and it is also stated that this same company, while marching to their destination, camped on the site of the present village of De Kalb. "While here one of their number attempted to desert ami he paid McClellan a sum of money to secrete him ; but. being threatened by the officer in command. McClellan gave him up again and he was tied to the rear of the army wagon and dragged on foot through the remainder of the route. The neighbors, indignant at McClellan*s treachery, threatened to lynch him and he was obliged to fly the country to secure safety."
Passage source: Past and Present of DeKalb County, Illinois, published 1907.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on DeKalb Township - 5,161 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Joseph F. Glidden House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mica Pellets Inc. Plant | Perlite, Vermiculite | Producer | ||
| Mica Pellets Inc. Vermiculite Plant | Vermiculite | Producer |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| President John Williston Cook Mansion | 0.8 miles | 2025 | |
 | Ellwood Mansion | 1.0 miles | 1975 |
 | Egyptian Theatre | 1.1 miles | 1978 |
 | George H. Gurler House | 1.1 miles | 1979 |
 | Haish Memorial Library | 1.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Elmwood Cemetery Gates | 4.7 miles | 1978 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73002159 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| DeKalb County | All 19 listed properties in this county. |
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