Monee Historical Society

Women of Monee Through Herstory
2024-05-11 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us on Saturday May 11 as we tell the stories of the women that influenced and help build Monee.

Membership Meeting
2024-05-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us as we welcome one of the oldest land surveying & map making companies in Chicago.
Meeting starts earlier at 6:00 pm with the presentation at 7:00 pm
Membership has it’s advantages!

Celebrate National Volunteer Week with us!
2024-04-23 13:00 - 19:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Thank you for all you do! Come and enjoy pizza and friendship!

Hidden in Plain Sight: Quilts and the Underground Railroad /Heritage Day at the Creamery
2024-04-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The Heritage Center will be open from 10 am – 3 pm. Presentation at 1:00 pm

Children's Book BINGO
2024-04-13 10:30 - 11:30 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Come join the fun and play BINGO for books!
Registration is required at: www.peotonelibrary.org

Annual Pancake Breakfast
2024-03-16 08:00 - 11:00 | Schoop’s of Monee, 5701 W Monee Manhattan Rd, Monee, IL, 60449
It’s pancake time! Help support the Monee Historical Society and get pancakes too! Advance tickets are available now at MHS. Contact us at 708-534-8635 or info@moneehistoricalsociety.com

Heritage Day at MHS
2024-03-09 10:00 - 15:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Celebrate Women’s History Month with MHS.
Browse 2 floors of historic quilts, needlecrafts and vintage clothing.
Open from 10 am – 3 pm. Presentation at 12 pm

Commemorative Quilt Project
2024-02-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Do you have a little bit, lots or absolutely NO sewing experience but want to help us out? We are looking for a few more volunteers to help us put together our Commemorative Quilt! Check out the details below or reach out to us!

Heritage Day at MHS
2024-02-10 10:00 - 15:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Mark your calendar to attend the February Heritage Day presentation: “The History of Monee”.
Learn about the first settlers of Monee and their determination to establish schools, businesses and churches in the area. Browse through the documents, photographs and memorabilia that is on display at the Heritage Center. Have a conversation with MHS members about their family history and how the town of Monee came to be.
Saturday
February 10, 2024
Open from 10 am – 3 pm
1:00 PM presentation –

Heritage Day at the Creamery
2024-02-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us Saturday February 10, 2024 for our re-scheduled Heritage Day Event!

History Book Club
2024-02-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
WINNER, 2023 Underground Railroad Free Press Hortense Simmons Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge!
Uncovering stories of the freedom network in northeastern Illinois

Mystery Book Club
2024-02-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 N First St, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
From London to Corsica to Paris — as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl in this captivating novel from the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Paris Apartment and The Guest List.

MHS fundraiser
2024-01-25 11:00 - 21:00 | Frankie’s “Touch of Italy” Pizzeria, 25921 S Governors Hwy, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Help raise funds for the Monee Historical Society and get delicious food for yourself!
You need a flyer to present with your order, so contact us at 708-534-8635 or info@moneehistoricalsociety.com for one. Thanks for your support!

Stuffed Animal Workshop
2024-01-13 10:30 - 11:30 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
WHOOO doesn’t want a new friend? Sign up at www.peotonelibrary.org

MHS Membership Meeting
2024-01-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States

American History Book Club
2024-01-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago’s growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world’s most explosively alive cities by 1900.

Mystery Book Club
2024-01-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can’t be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match—and a murderer . . .
Registration is required for this event at the Peotone Library website:
www.peotonelibrary.org

MHS Christmas Party
2023-12-11 18:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
MHS members are invited to the annual Christmas Party! Please RSVP by Dec. 7, 2023
Fun times!

Mystery Book Club
2023-12-07 11:00 - 12:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 N First St, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
Introducing Father Tom Christmas, the wise, warmhearted new vicar of a picturesque English village that seems to be a haven of peace. But appearances can be very deceiving
Registration is required for this event at the Peotone Library website:
www.peotonelibrary.org

Santa is Coming to Town!
2023-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Stop by and talk with the big guy and the missus!

Meet & Greet with author Christena Estby
2023-11-28 10:00 - 11:30 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us and chat with Christena Estby and her new book: Waiting By The Manager. A journal for Reflection & Prayer.
Start your holiday season with daily Scripture readings, and space to reflect and respond from Advent through Epiphany.

Holiday decorating at The Monee Heritage Center
2023-11-28 09:00 - 18:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Come join us and help get ready for the holidays!

Heritage Day at MHS/ The American Buffalo
2023-11-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Come join us as we welcome Laura Lewis from Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. Stay to enjoy “The American Buffalo” film.
Popcorn too!

MHS membership meeting
2023-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 | IL
The MHS monthly meeting will be held November 9 at 7 pm at the Heritage Center

SEGGEBRUCH FAMILY OBSERVES 170TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARRIVAL TO AMERICA FROM GERMANY
2023-11-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
On Wednesday November 8th fourth and fifth generation descendants of the Seggebruch Family will gather to observe the 170th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestors to America. The family will meet at the Monee Heritage Center at 1 pm to make a donation presentation of family historical artifacts to the Monee Historical Society and to the Crete Area Historical Society. A similar presentation will take place at 5 pm the same day at the 1853 Crete Congregational Church, the future home of the Crete Area Historical Society Museum. Highlights of items to be donated to the Monee Historical Society include a Saxony style spinning wheel dating from the 1850’s and life/death portraits of Gottlieb (1815-1900) and Louisa (1818-1906) Seggebruch, which are handcrafted wood shadow box frames with floral wire sculptures decorated with colored threads and human hair of female family members. Highlights of items to be donated to the Crete Area Historical Society include an antique kitchen clock dating from the 1870’s purchased at the Wehrmann General Store in Goodenow, and wedding photographs and a German wedding certificate from the 1902 double wedding of brothers Johann and Frederich Seggebruch to sisters Wilhelmina and Sophia Nietert in Edwardsville, Illinois. Another donation item is a 1972 letter from the State of Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie which recognized the Seggebruch homestead farm as an Illinois Centennial Farm, being owned by the same family for over 100 years at that time. The original mortgage and deed documents for the 80 acre Seggebruch homestead farm dated November 8th, 1853 will be displayed at the presentation as well.

The Seggebruch farm served as the family homestead for five generations of the Seggebruch Family beginning in 1853. Friedrich Gottlieb Seggebruch, his wife Friederike Elisabeth Eleonore (Siegmann) and five children emigrated from the Port of Bremerhaven, Germany in the fall of 1853. The trip consisted of steamship travel across the Atlantic Ocean to New York, then continued on the Hudson River to Albany and the Erie Canal to the Great Lakes to Detroit. The final part of the six week journey included a wagon trip to Chicago, where the family purchased their original 80 acre homestead farm from an attorney and land broker, Francis Hoffmann, whose office was at 55 Clark Street in Chicago. The land was purchased at the cost of $5.00 per acre, a sum of $400 which was secured with a $100 down payment and $300 mortgage. The family then traveled south to Crete Township and their new home, where they erected a settlement house before the winter of 1853-54 set in. The one room house measuring 14 feet by 22 feet housed the seven member family and a cow to provide milk. The oldest child Henry died that first winter, but four more children were born in America and the farm eventually grew to 410 acres. The Friedrich Gottlieb Seggebruch Homestead is listed as a Will County Historic Landmark, as is the Monee Heritage Center at the historic Monee Creamery. The 1853 Crete Congregational Church will also soon be nominated and considered for listing as a historic landmark by the Will County Historic Preservation Commission, who held their annual traveling meeting at the Crete Library in October 2023.

American History Book Club - part 2
2023-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The conversation continues on a book written by one of the most recognized and award winning writers of our day, Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Mystery Book Club
2023-11-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with The Woman in the Library, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.

Registration required. Please sign up at: www.peotonelibrary.org

Trunk or Treats
2023-10-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Come out and join us for a safe trick or treat experience! Come by MHC for treats and while you are here, visit with us and explore the historic Creamery building!

A Walk Through Time: St. Paul's Cemetery Walk & Reception
2023-10-21 12:30 - 15:30 | St. Pauls Cemetery, 5223 W Margaret Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us to hear the history of some of Monee’s past residents and their unique contributions to Monee and the surrounding area.
After the tour, join us at the Monee Heritage Center for refreshments.
Please call to schedule your tour time: 12:30 or 2:00 pm
708-534-8635
Or e-mail us at: info@moneehistoricalsociety.com

JACK-O-LANTERN JAMBOREE!
2023-10-21 10:30 - 11:30 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Register online for this children’s event!
www.peotonelibrary.org
