Will County is home to numerous historic landmarks, famous people, and a myriad of history. It wasn't always as built as some parts are now; About two hundred years earlier, Will County was a prairie land farmed and hunted by the Potawatomi Indian tribe. The first settlement established in the county lines was created by a man named Jesse Walker in 1826. He called it Walker's Grove and worked with Potawatomi in the areas of farming, milling, and trading with the settlement's newcomers. The county was not officially established until 1836, when a legislature separated it from Cook County. Currently, Will County is made up of a number of townships, including Channahon, Crete, Custer, DuPage, Florence, Frankfort, Green Garden, Homer, Jackson, Joliet, Lockport, Manhattan, Monee, New Lenox, Peotone, Plainfield, Reed, Troy, Washington, Wesley, Wheatland, Will, Wilmington and Wilton. Among these municipalities, the county includes a number of cities. Towns and cities that are within county lines include parts of Aurora, Beecher, parts of Bolingbrook, Braidwood, Channahon, parts of Coal City, Crest Hill, Crete, parts of Diamond, Elwood, Frankfort, Godley, Homer Glen, Joliet, parts of Lemont, Lockport, Manhattan, parts of Minooka, Mokena, Monee, parts of Naperville, New Lenox, parts of Orland Park, parts of Park Forest, Peotone, Plainfield, Rockdale, Romeoville, parts of Sauk Village, Shorewood, Steger, Symerton, parts of Tinley Park, parts of University Park, Wilmington and Woodridge; not to mention a handful of unincorporated areas including Andres, Crystal Lawns, Pue, Fairmont, Frankfort Square, Goodings Grove, Goodenow, Ingalls Park, Lakewood Shores, Preston Heights, Ridge... middle of the paper... .preserved by the Peotone Historical Society in its original working condition.Works Citedhttp://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1356.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Will_County,_Illinoishttp://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_Iron_and_Steel_Workshttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/il/il0600/il0622/data/il0622data.pdfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_and_Michigan_Canalhttp://www.cityofjoliet. com/willcounty.htmhttps://archive.org/stream/historyofwillcou00chic#page/224/mode/2uphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_County,_Illinoishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peotone_Millhttp: //www.plainfield-il.org/pages/villagehistoryhttp://www.rialtosquare.com/history.asphttp://www.cityofjoliet.com/business/rialto.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Rialto_Square_Theatrehttp://www.peotone.com/rathjemill/