Barrington Appoints Sesquicentennial Committee

 

The Village Board voted Monday to appoint community leaders to a committee that will plan events and activities for the Village's 150th anniversary.

 

The Barrington 2015 Sesquicentennial Committee will include, among others:

Tim Dunn

Debbie Villers

Janet Agnoletti

Jeff Anderson

Brian Battle

Carol Beese

Barbara Benson

Joe Coath

Karen Darch

Patty Dowd Schmitz

Chris Garry

Lenn Grant

Christine Griffin

Ron Hamelberg

Jeanne Hanson

Will Knapik

Curt Larsen

Jeff Lawler

Bob Lee

Steve Morissey

Margaret Myren

Laura Nadelhoffer

Dave Nelson

Sam Oliver

Brooke Patsey

David Pepper

Dana Shadrick

Don Thompson

Jennifer Wondrasek

 

President Karen Darch noted that additional appointments to the committee will likely be made in the near future.

 

In 1854, Robert C. Campbell, a civil engineer, completed a detailed plan for a village to be called “Barrington Station”, which then consisted of a farm house and a log barn located on 80 acres owned by Willard Stevens, and was bounded by what is now Hough Street, County Line Road, a line east of Spring Street, and by a point drawn a few feet south of Russell Street, which formed the nucleus of what is today the Village of Barrington. In 1863, approximately 300 residents of Barrington Station decided, in a referendum, to separate local and township powers, and this led, in 1865, to the Illinois legislature’s approval of the incorporation of the Village of Barrington.

The committee will have its first meeting on Feb. 16--the same date Barrington officially became incorporated in 1865. The Sesquicentennial Committee will look for ways for us to remember, recount, and honor the years, eras, and people of our Village’s history.

 

"(The Village) will be 145 (years-old) when they meet for the first time," Darch said.

 

The sesquicentennial celebration will take place from 2013 through 2015, to represent the time it took to become officially incorporated.