2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the George H. Clayson House, home of Palatine Historical Society.
6-15-2024 Flag Day Celebration
6- 8-2024 Garage Sale
5-19-2024 Walking Tour with Marlee Buenrrostro
5-15-2024 Program: "The History of the Palatine Public Library" with Ken Gorham
10-18-2023 Program: "Lake Michigan Triangle" with Gayle Soucek
9-17-2023 Cemetery Walk
7-25-2023 Historical Scavenger Hunt
6-25-2023 House and Garden Walk
6-17-2023 CH150 Celebration at Clayson House, Good Old Summertime Party, Tree Dedication Ceremony, Flag Day Celebration
5-17-2023 Program: "History of the Palatine Fire Department" with David Hammer, John Tobin and Scott Ohlrich
10-19-2022 Program: "Joe P. Hits the Streets" with Joe and Dan Petykowski
9-18-2022 Cemetery Walk
6-12-2022 History Crawl
6-11-2022 Flag Day Ceremony
5-18-2022 Program: "A Visit with Mrs. Potts" with Ellie Carlson
12- 5-2021 Holiday Open House
11-19-2021 Holidays on the Town, 19 N Brockway St
10-20-2021 Program: "My Life in a One-Room Schoolhouse" with Jeff Kressman
9-26-2021 Hillside Cannon Rededication
9-19-2021 Cemetery Walk at Hillside Cemetery
6-27-2021 Garden Tour
6-28-2020 Garden Tour
12-21-2019 Holiday Open House
10- 6-2019 Clayson House 40th Anniversary Open House
9-18-2019 Program: "Restoration of the Clayson House" with Joe Petykowski
9-15-2019 Cemetery Walk
7-28-2019 Garden Party
5-15-2019 Program: "Clayson House, Then and Now" with Joe Petykowski
12- 2-2018 Holiday Open House
9-19-2018 Program: "Toys Through the Decades"
9-16-2018 Cemetery Walk
6-10-2018 First Clayson's Kids Days
4- 7-2018 Victorian Tea
12- 3-2017 Holiday Open House
9-20-2017 Program: "Palatine Loves Its Sports" with Joe Petykowski
6-11-2017 Good Ol' Summertime Festival
5-21-2017 Cemetery Walk
5-17-2017 Program: "Oh, the Humanity!: The Hindenburg Disaster" with Terrence Lynch
12-24-2016 Holiday Open House
10-22-2016 Palatine Sesquicentennial Gala
10-19-2016 Program: "A Walk Down Memory Lane" with Rochelle Pennington
9-21-2016 Program: "Baseball in the Movies" with Steven Frenzel
8-16-2016 Dedication of the GAR burial plot
7- 2-2016 July Fourth Parade
6- 5-2016 Good Ol' Summertime Festival
5-18-2016 Program: "Stars of the Silver Screen" with Roberta Randall
5-15-2016 Cemetery Walk
4-20-2016 Program: "Mudslinging, Muckraking and Apple Pie: Presidential Campaigns, the Great American Pastime" with the HFK Group
4- 9-2016 Victorian Tea
3-16-2016 Program: "Songs and Music of the Civil War" with Barb Sorensen
12- 6-2015 Holiday Open House: Traditions and Legends of Christmas
10-21-2015 Program: "A Lesson in Haiku" with Jeff Kressman
9-16-2015 Program: "Whose House Was That, Anyway?" with Alice Rosenberg
6-19-2015 History Crawl
5-20-2015 Program: "A Walk Through Palatine High Yearbooks" with Joe Petykowski
5-17-2015 Hillside Cemetery Walk
4-15-2015 Program: "Castles in the Air: Suburban Projects That Never Got Off the Ground" with David Hammer
4-11-2015 Victorian Tea
3-18-2015 Program: "Chicago: Candyland" with Leslie Goddard
12- 7-2014 Open House: "Christmas Through the Decades"
10-15-2014 Program: "1973 Ben Franklin Fire" with John Tobin
10-13-2014 Program: "Chicago Mob Murders" with Dr. Wayne Johnson
9-17-2014 Program: "Beyond Genealogy: Writing a Family History" with Jan Spaletto
5-21-2014 Program: "The Streets of Palatine" with Joe Petykowski
4-16-2014 Program: "The Mythical J. P. Moneybags"
4- 5-2014 Victorian Tea
3-19-2014 Program: "A Roadside History of Illinois" with Stan Banash
12- 8-2013 Christmas at Clayson
9-18-2013 Program: "A History of the Palatine Police Department" with Police Commander Mike Seebacher
10-17-2012 Program: "A Tale About the Palatine, Lake Zurich & Wauconda Railway" with Joe and Dan Petykowski
9-19-2012 Program: "Cook County Expressways and Tollways" with Andy Plummer
9- 7-2012 History Crawl
6-30-2012 July Fourth Float Honoring Co. E. 113th Ill Volunteer Infrantry, Civil War
6-24-2012 Garden Tour
12- 3-2011 Holiday Open House
10-19-2011 Program: "Stories and More Stories" with David Hammer
9-21-2011 Program: "Agatha Christie" with Betsey Means
9- 9-2011 History Crawl
8-27-2011 Booth at Palatine Street Fair
6-26-2011 Garden Walk
5-15-2011 Cemetery Walk
5-11-2011 Program: "Chicago Tunnel Story" with Bruce Moffat
3- 9-2011 Website created
12- 5-2010 Christmas Open House
9- -2010 Hillside Cemetery Restoration
10-21-2009 Program: "For What it's Worth" with Karl Gates appraising your antiques
4-18-2009 Historical Society Tea
3-18-2009 Program: "Chicago on Screen" with Sarah Marcus
6-29-2008 House and Garden Walk
5-21-2008 Program: "Yes Virginia, Sears DID Sell Barns" with Rebecca Hunter
5-18-2008 Cemetery Walk
4- -2008 Program: "Abraham Lincoln" with Brian Fox Ellis
4-18-2007 Program: "Notorious Outlaws in Illinois"
4-14-2007 Victorian Tea
12- 3-2006 Christmas Open House
9-10-2005 50th Year Celebration, Ice Cream Social
6-26-2005 Housewalk
5-18-2005 Program: "Scenes from the Past" with David Hammer
5-15-2005 Cemetery Walk
4-20-2005 Program: "Voices from the Past"
4- 9-2005 Tea Time
3-10-2005 Program: "Jane Addams: Worthy Choices" with Annette Baldwin
6-27-2004 House and Garden Tour
6- 6-2004 Program: "Scenes from our Past" with David Hammer
6-22-2003 House Walk
5-21-2003 Program: "The Civil War Comes to Illinois" with Ron Schinleber
5-18-2003 Cemetery Walk
9-18-2002 Program: "The Eastland Disaster"
7-15-2001 House and Garden Walk
5-20-2001 Cemetery Walk
7- 9-2000 House and Garden Walk
5-19-1999 Program: "Searching for Local History" with Craig Pfannkuche
5-16-1999 Cemetery Walk
4-10-1999 Victorian Tea
9-16-1998 Program: "Civil War Sword Collection" with Robert Ferro
3-18-1998 Program: "The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad"
8- 3-1997 First House and Garden Tour
5-15-1996 Program by "The Cemetery Lady", Helen Sclair
3-20-1996 Program: "Victorian Clothing" with Sandi Eileen
10-18-1995 Program: "The Oregon Trail" with the Schuldes
9-20-1995 Program: "Lighthouses"
4-30-1995 Antiquarian Book Fair
4-19-1995 Program: "Barns" with H. Wayne Price
3-15-1995 Program: "Those Were the Days Radio Players"
11-16-1994 Program: "Chicago Tunnels" with Bruce Moffat
8- -1994 Garage Sale
7- 2-1994 Civil War Living History Reenactment
5-18-1994 Program: "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal" with Frank Regan
5-15-1994 Cemetery Walk
5- 9-1994 Program: "The Underground Railroad"
4-23-1994 Antiquarian Book Fair
4-20-1994 Program: "The Ten Commandments"
10-02-1993 Civil War Encampment at Plum Grove Reservoir
9- -1993 Antique Show at Community Center
5-23-1993 Cemetery Walk
3-17-1993 Program: "The Shakers"
12- 6-1992 Holiday Open House
9-19-1992 Antique Show
5-21-1992 Program: "The Good Old Days" with David Hammer
9-21-1991 Civil War Encampment at Community Park; Antique Show and Sale at Sandborn School
6- 1-1991 Program: "Petticoats to Pants": Auxilary to Chicago Goodwill Industries
4-17-1991 Program: "An Evening with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln" with Max and Donna Daniels
4-14-1991 Antiquarian Book Fair
4-21-1990 Antiquarian Book Fair
4-18-1990 Program: "Civil War Undertaking"
3-21-1990 Program: "Brandy Bunch Quartette"
11-15-1989 Program: "Indians" with Robert Parker Coffin
4-30-1989 First Antiquarian Book Fair
4-19-1989 Program: "The Palatine Prairie"
7- 6-1988 Tuesday Toilers Quilting Bee
10-21-1987 Program: Stories from the Great Lakes with Donald Hammer and Richard Murray
9-16-1987 Program: "Palatine, One Hundred Years of Incorporation" with Ward Smidl
4-29-1987 Program: "Trolleys"
9-20-1986 Antique Show and Sale at Sanborn School
9-21-1985 Antique Show and Sale at Sanborn School
9-19-1984 Program: "Century of Progress in Chicago in 1933" with Bob Wright
9-24-1983 Antique Show at Sanborn School
6- 4-1983 "Victorian Wedding Scene, A Flower Show at the Clayson House"
5-18-1983 Program: "If Quilts Could Talk" with Reta Schwisow
5-15-1983 HouseWalk (Tour A)
4- -1983 Program: "Mrs. Eli Lilly's Unusual Watches" with Gene Lehman
3- -1983 Program: "Just a Little Street, Etc." with Florence Parkhurst
2-16-1983 Program: "Sing-a-Long with Ken Spengler"
11-17-1982 Program: "An Early American Christmas" with Sharon Linder
11-13-1982 2nd Annual Christmas Botique
9-15-1982 Program: "A Link to the Past: Early American Pressed Glass" with Leona M. Lee
8- -1982 Used Book Sale
5-21-1982 Garage Sale and Book Sale
5-19-1982 Program: "Nancy Fortunato and her Watercolors of Palatine"
3-17-1982 Program: "Businesses in Palatine" with Ray Mills
2-17-1982 Program: "A Look at American Music" with Kenneth Spengler
11-18-1981 Program: "Herbs & Spices of Revolutionary Period" with Mrs. John Hall II
11-14-1981 Craft Sale: "Christmas Treasures"
10-21-1981 Program: "Historical Magic" with Howard Bamman
9-16-1981 Program: "Antique Cars" with Eugene Lehman
9-12-1981 Fabric Sale
7-14-1981 Carriage House Moved to Clayson House property
4-15-1981 Program: "Old Plum Grove and the Perpetuation of Old Plum Trees" with Ray Mills and LeRoy Lethman
3-31-1981 Program: "Schaumburg History" with Rev. John Sternberg
3-20-1981 Garage Sale to Save Carriage House
2-18-1981 Program: "Barrington History" with William Klingenberg
12- 6-1980 Program: "Christmas in Old Palatine"
11-19-1980 Program: "Learning Jewish and Roman History Through Ancient Coins" with Rabbi Hillel Gamoran
9-17-1980 Program: "Medieval History Thru Brass Tombstone Rubbings" with Mrs. Judith Brown
5-25-1980 Civil War Encampment at Palatine (Community) Park
5-21-1980 Program: Video tapes highlighting activities of the Historical Society during the year
3-19-1980 Program: "Sacred Heart Music of Early America" with the New Jerusalem Singers
1980 Program: "Early Township History" with Ray Mills and Florence Parkhurst
12- 1-1979 Christmas Floral Show
11-17-1979 Book Sale
11-14-1979 Program: "Native Illinois Victorian Plantings" with Marilyn Alaimo
10-17-1979 Program: "Handmade Automotive Tools of Yesteryear" with Herb Noftz
10- -1979 Cemetery Walk
10- -1979 Walking Tour of Old Buildings
10- 8-1979 Program: "Old Palatine" with Ray Mills and Florence Parkhurst
10- 7-1979 Clayson House Museum opens
9- -1979 Program: "The Lore and Legend of Long Grove" with Kay McElroy
5-28-1979 Clayson House opens to the public
5-16-1979 Program: "History of the Palatine Fire Department"
4-18-1979 Program: "Teaching in a One Room Schoolhouse" with Mary Csanadi
3-21-1979 Program: "History of Palatine High School" with Ray Mills
2- -1979 Program: "Pawnee Indians" with Mrs. Rose Buchanan
12- 3-1978 Tour of stained glass windows at the Methodist Church on N. Plum Grove Rd.
11-22-1978 Annual Used Book Sale
11-15-1978 Program: "Antique Telephones"
10-18-1978 Program: "Antique Clocks Around the World" with Eugene Lehman
10-14-1978 Book Sale
9-20-1978 Program: "Review of Palatine History" with Florence Parkhurst and Ray Mills
8-12-1978 Antique Show and Sale
4-19-1978 Program: "Pictures from our Attic" with Florence Parkhurst and Ray Mills
3-15-1978 Program: "Collecting and Enjoyment of Postal Cards" with William Galloway
2-15-1978 Program: "Abraham Lincoln" with Tom Trimborn
1- -1978 Program: "Shakers in America" with Jackson Keig
12-21-1977 Program: "Christmas in Early America" with Sharon Linder
11-16-1977 Program: "The Cooper's Art"
10-19-1977 Program: "Architecture of Chicago" with Ray Mills
9- -1977 Program: "Problems, Processes, Progress; the Restoration of Clayson House" with Wilbert Hasbrouck
8-14-1977 Housewalk
7-21-1977 Restoration Architect Wilbert Hasbrouck gives preliminary report on Clayson House restoration
5-21-1977 Book Sale
5-18-1977 Program: "Spring Sing"
4-20-1977 Program on Oral History: "What Was That You Said?" with Mrs. Esther Perica
3-16-1977 Program: "A Moment in Time, Old Photography (1839-1900) and Miniature Case Art, A Native American Art Form" with Mrs. Dorothy Kufcezvich
2-16-1977 Program: "Herbs in Early America" with Sharon Linder
1-19-1977 Program: "The Story of the Trolley Car" with Kenneth Spengler
12-15-1976 Program: "Winter Shadows Across This Prairie Village" with Mrs. Fred Oswald
11-17-1976 Program: "Palatine As It Was - the Lighter Side of Life from the 1920's through the 1940's" with Mrs. George Spies
10-20-1976 Program: "The Life and Times of the Civil War soldier" with Ward C. Smidl
9-15-1976 Program: "America's First Ladies" with Mrs. Barbara Fremd displaying 12" dolls
6-16-1976 Visit by Illinois State Library Historymobile
5-19-1976 Film: "Our Living History" depicts the work of the Illinois State Historical Society
5-15-1976 Palatine Bicentennial Ball
4-21-1976 Program: "History of the Palatine, Lake Zurich & Wauconda Railway" with Arthur Wildhagen
4- 7-1976 Library purchases and Park District agrees to maintain property at 224 E. Palatine Rd.
3-17-1976 Program: Barbershop Quartet The Clairvoyants
2-18-1976 Program: "Indian Lore of the Palatine Area" with Florence Parkhurst
1-21-1976 Program: "What Can You Reasonably Expect to Get from a Course in Genealogy?" with Mrs. Mary Louise Regan
12-17-1975 Program: "Art of Old Time Spinning" with Mrs. Diantha Greenwood and students
11-19-1975 Program: "Palatine's Early Buildings" with Priscilla Oswald
7-10-1975 Palatine Park District approves new tax for historical museum
11-22-1968 Program: "Palatine of an Earlier Era" with Arthur Wildhagen
5-12-1966 Program: "Who Was Who in Palatine in 1860 and 1880"
2-18-1964 Program: "Historical Lore" with Mrs. Milton Daniels
11-19-1963 Program: "The Indians of Northern Cook County" with Earl Past
9-24-1963 Program: "History of Comfort Lumber" with Wesley Comfort
4-23-1963 Program: "History of St. John United Church of Christ" with Daniel Bergman
11-11-1962 Commemoration of 100th Anniversary of the Civil War
3-20-1962 Program: "History of Palatine Families"
11- 6-1961 Program: "Encyclopaedia Britannica"
3- 7-1960 Program: "Preserving Local Historical Data"
3- 3-1958 Program: "Old Farms In and Around Palatine" with Walter Rennack
11- 5-1956 Program: "Excavation of a Late Prehistoric Indian Village South of Chicago" with Elaine Bluhm
9-17-1956 Program: "Palatine's Past" with Frank Danielsen
3- 5-1956 Program: "Palatine Memories" with Allen Bennett and Mrs. A. R. Kleinhans
12- 8-1955 Palatine Historical Society organized