Twenty-One Houses Shipped From Indiana Started This Town
Streamwood's land was known as Hoosier Grove and worked by dairy farmers from the 1830s into the 1950s; as late as 1950, the future Streamwood area within Hanover Township had only about 800 residents spread across farms. That changed fast in 1956, when Maxon Construction and L H Builders erected 21 pre-assembled houses on concrete slabs at Bartlett and Schaumburg Roads, shipped from Indiana by the National Homes Corporation with insulated walls, ceiling, and roof sections already framed -- marketed as a 'Town of Tomorrow' for returning war veterans. The Village of Streamwood incorporated on February 9, 1957, and its population jumped to 4,821 residents by 1960.
What a 1956 Slab Foundation Means for Water Damage Today
A town built almost overnight on concrete slabs in the mid-1950s has a different water-damage profile than the older river towns nearby: there's no basement to flood, but slab foundations and the shallow crawl spaces added in later additions can trap moisture against wood framing that was never designed with a vapor barrier in mind. Streamwood still sits inside the wider Fox River watershed that produced the 1996 and April 2013 flood disasters, so heavy regional storms can still saturate the ground around these original 1956 slabs even when no river is nearby to overflow.
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Planning a water damage restoration Project in Streamwood
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