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tom pauling::They came back in 1834 with their families from indiana, and were joined by over a dozen other families later that year.
Charles became incorporated as a city in 1874.
Charles homes, complete with tunnels and false doorways; there was also an open abolitionist group called the kane county antislavery society, founded in 1842, with about 180 members.
Charles was a very isolated place early on in its existence.
The village was located three days away from chicago, and the fox river was not navigable for large boats.
By the 1850s, st.
Charles had begun construction of a plank road to sycamore but turned down an offer by the galena and chicago union railroad to construct a line through the town, which was eventually built in nearby elgin.
Lack of regional connections in the early years kept the town relatively small.
Charles was without a railroad until 1871 when a branch line from geneva was constructed, and was without a direct connection to chicago until the 1880s with the coming of the chicago great western railway.
Streetcar lines along the fox river between elgin and aurora were built through the city in 1896, operated by the aurora, elgin and fox river electric company.
Two major kane county roads also cut through the city; randall road on the west side and kirk road on the east side.