Ranch Work Horses for Sale near Blue Island, IL

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Quarter Horse - Horse for Sale in Hebron, IN 46341
Look N Smart
2009 quarter horse gelding. Bred spectacularly. AQHA & ARHA papers. Sho..
Hebron, Indiana
Chestnut
Quarter Horse
Gelding
15
Hebron, IN
IN
Sold
Quarter Horse - Horse for Sale in Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Blackie
This is the kind that is so hard to find! Been there, done that and absolut..
Bloomingdale, Illinois
Black
Quarter Horse
Mare
9
Bloomingdale, IL
IL
$2,600
Friesian - Horse for Sale in Valparaiso, IN 46383
Maggie
Friesian cross in Buchanan, MI Magnolia is just gorgeous! Her confirmation,..
Valparaiso, Indiana
Bay
Friesian
Mare
14
Valparaiso, IN
IN
$15,000
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About Blue Island, IL

Norman Rexford came to Chicago from Charlotte, Vermont in 1835 and in 1836 became the first permanent settler of Blue Island when he established the Blue Island House near the intersection of present-day Western Avenue and Gregory Street just north of the Western Avenue bridge. Before Rexford built the Blue Island House he had constructed a four-room log cabin in the wilderness at the north end of the Blue Island ridge that he intended as a tavern for wayfarers, but after a year realized that the place was not likely to be profitable for him and began to look for another site where he might have more success. Although farther from Fort Dearborn and the settlement at Chicago (which by that time was incorporated and had a population of several thousand persons) by about 3 miles (5 km), the new inn was better situated because it was located on the Wabash Road (in Blue Island now Western Avenue), which was then a part of the Vincennes trail that went from Chicago to Vincennes, Indiana. It was considerably larger and more refined than Rexford's previous venture, being a two-and-a half-story white frame building that also had various outbuildings to accommodate the needs of his guests. Because it was a day's journey from Chicago, within a few years the inn became the nucleus for a group of businesses that catered to the soldiers, cattlemen (with their herds) and other travelers who arrived by stagecoach or otherwise frequented the Vincennes trail.