Historical Photo: Onwentsia Club Has Lake Forest Roots

Well, my intentions were good.

My execution, well, not as good.

In posting the photo of Mill Creek Hunt Club, I was trying to get to its roots as the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest.

And yet, I did receive some responses, so it's good to see you are keeping me on track. Thanks, Paul, for your e-mail.

The Mill Creek Hunt Club, as Art Miller so accurately commented, was located in the Milburn/Old Mill Creek area west of Waukegan after growth moved it out of Lake Forest. The Mill Creek Hunt had been in existence since 1897 when it began as the Onwentsia Club.

My apologies as well for allowing the word 'store' to remain in the bottom part of the copy. I missed taking it out and didn't mean to make it look like I was looking for a name of a store. Thanks, Gail, for that comment.

I'll do a better job for next Sunday's posting. Thanks for your comments and feedbacks, and if you know of someone who has a historical photo of Lake Forest for posting, tell them to contact me at james.powers@patch.com