Pursuant to the treaty, the Potawatomi left their lands by the mid-1830s,The Illinois Constitution of 1818 , 19thcircuitcourt.state.il.us. Accessed 2008-01-04. and by 1835 the future Libertyville had its first recorded non-indigenous resident, George Vardin. Said to be a "well-educated" English immigrant with a wife and a young daughter, Vardin lived in a cabin located where the Cook Park branch of the Cook Memorial Public Library District stands today. Though he apparently moved on to the west that same year, the settlement that grew up around his cabin was initially known as Vardin's Grove.History of the Cook Property . Accessed 2008-01-04.
Pursuant to the treaty, the Potawatomi left their lands by the mid-1830s,The Illinois Constitution of 1818 , 19thcircuitcourtstate.ilus. Accessed 2008-01-04 and by 1835 the future Libertyville had its first recorded non-indigenous resident, George Vardin. Said to be a "well-educated" English immigrant with a wife and a young daughter, Vardin lived in a cabin located where the Cook Park branch of the Cook Memorial Public Library District stands today. Though he apparently moved on to the west that same year, the settlement that grew up around his cabin was initially known as Vardin's Grove.History of the Cook Property . Accessed 2008-01-04.