Draft Horses for Sale near Round Lake, IL

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Draft Stallion
Belgian Standardbred cross, 17 HH, Red Chestnut. Gentle Giant! Easy keeper..
Elgin, Illinois
Chestnut
Draft
Stallion
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Elgin, IL
IL
$1,500
Draft Mare
Gorgeous black mare, blaze, hind white socks, excellent mover, needs home w..
Beloit, Wisconsin
Black
Draft
Mare
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Beloit, WI
WI
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About Round Lake, IL

While the retreating Wisconsin glacier left an attractive environment for farmers who entered western Lake County after the Black Hawk War of 1832, the numerous lakes and wet prairies there prevented easy movement to agricultural markets. Farmers traded at stagecoach trail communities such as Hainesville, often exchanging dairy products and eggs for what they could not craft on the farm. In the 1890s, when officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad extended a branch line from their Milwaukee–Chicago main line at Libertyville Junction (later Rondout) to Janesville, Wisconsin, western Lake County farmers gained easy access to Chicago. Landowners near Hainesville such as Amarias M.