and Horse Fest" have been held and raised additional funding for the Wayne Police Department. Notable people Marguerite Henry, author George C. Marshall, future U.S. Army Chief of Staff, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, lived in Wayne from 1935 to 1936 Joy Morton, founder of Morton Salt; president of Dunham Woods in the 1930s. Some of Joy's biggest accomplishments included building his salt business, planning city transportation and environmental preservation. Pratt’s Wayne Woods Wayne contains a large forest preserve. Pratt's Wayne Woods is the largest forest preserve in DuPage County. Located in the county's northwest corner, the preserve's combine with Illinois Department of Natural Resource land adjacent on the north to form a continuous stretch of land, a scarce resource in a growing urban area. The savannas, marshes, meadows and wetlands of Pratt's Wayne Woods offer a myriad of nature-loving opportunities and recreational excursions. The preserve's Brewster Creek area is the site of a major wetland restoration program. The area now known as Pratt's Wayne Woods first took form in 1965 with a donation of by the state of Illinois. Thanks to the efforts of George Pratt, a township supervisor and a preserve commissioner during the 1960s and 1970s, the Forest Preserve District began to purchase additional lands that comprise Pratt's Wayne Woods today. The first private land owner of this area was Mark Wentworth Fletcher, a surveyor who made his living in Geneva, Dundee, Elgin, St. Charles and Wayne. Fletcher purchased from the federal government on February 18, 1846, and built a farmhouse along Dunham Road. After Fletcher's death in 1900, the land changed ownership a few times before Mark Morton purchased it in 1926. One of the founders of the Morton Salt Company, Morton excavated the farm's southwest corner for sand and gravel. Land that was not used in the mineral operations was farmed for grain and corn up until a few years before Morton's death in 1951. The land was later purchased by Franz Palm, who transformed the area into a sportsman's hunting and fishing lodge. The Palm family had originally intended their park to be their retirement place; however, the state of Illinois had other plans. The state purchased the original with the intention of creating a state park. Once this idea was abandoned, George Pratt convinced the District to purchase the quarry area for a forest preserve.