Current Exhibit

HerStory, Meet the Remarkable Women of Early Bartlett

"My name was on the 1873 Chicago & Pacific Railroad deed too. Right there beneath my husband Luther’s. It said Luther Bartlett and his wife Sophia Bartlett. That’s me. That makes me a Village of Bartlett town founder also."  Sophia Bartlett

 

"I was the new face of a changing Bartlett, a German immigrant who arrived in this area in the mid to late 1800s to seek a “neue Heimat,” a new homeland. There was strife and political unrest in Germany that lead up to the Marzrevolution (March Revolution) of 1848 and later the Seven Weeks War in 1866. Germans fled their country for the freedoms America offered. Many settled in the Hanover Township area and worked on farms, later purchasing them with their hard earned dollars."  Dorothea Krumfuss

 

We, along with others, are all notable ladies of Bartlett.  We invite you to come and “meet” us in the exhibition, “HerStory, Meet the Remarkable Women of Early Bartlett,” where our lives and contributions will be highlighted through words, photos and artifacts. Also on display are women’s fashions through the decades from a circa 1870s dress and bonnets to a wedding dress created from a World War II parachute.