A Rail Depot Built On a 40-Acre Farm, Not a Riverbank
Bartlett's original town site was a 40-acre parcel owned by Luther Bartlett, who had arrived in Illinois by way of Michigan in 1844 after growing up in Conway, Massachusetts. In 1873 he offered the Chicago & Pacific Railroad a right-of-way through that land along with a station site, and the depot and surrounding lots were platted and sold jointly by the railroad and the Bartlett family; the Village of Bartlett incorporated in 1891. That original 1873 depot still stands today and now houses the Bartlett Depot Museum.
Storm Exposure for a Town That Grew Up Away From the Fox
Unlike the Fox River mill towns nearby, Bartlett grew up around a rail depot serving area dairy farmers rather than a riverfront dam, which means its older housing sits farther from a fixed flood line but still inside the same Fox River watershed that produced the region's 1996 flood disaster and the April 2013 flooding declared a federal disaster in nearby counties. For a depot-era or early-20th-century Bartlett home, the bigger water-damage risk usually runs through roof age, gutter capacity, and grading around a foundation built long before modern stormwater standards, rather than a river cresting its banks.
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