Editing Roselle, Illinois (section)

== History ==
[[Image:Roselle mill.jpg|thumb|Roselle Flour and Feed Mill in 1895, before it burned down in 1916<ref name=roselle_mill_source>{{cite web |url=http://dss.roselle.lib.il.us/cgi-bin/rpldss.dll/dssshowdoc?DOC_ID=101&Page=0&ReqWidth=800&InHTML=True |title=Roselle Historical Foundation – Digital Archive |year=2004 |access-date=October 19, 2007 |author=Roselle Historical Foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129202030/http://dss.roselle.lib.il.us/cgi-bin/rpldss.dll/dssshowdoc?DOC_ID=101&Page=0&ReqWidth=800&InHTML=True |archive-date=January 29, 2008 }}</ref>]]
The area surrounding the current village of Roselle began to be settled in the early 1830s, as settlers moved in next to the native [[Potawatomi]] people. Silas L. Meacham and his brothers Harvey and Lyman settled the area now known as [[Bloomingdale Township, DuPage County, Illinois|Bloomingdale Township]]. The government had been offering land in the area for around $1.25 / acre. In 1837, Deacon Elijah Hough and his wife settled in the Bloomingdale area, with his sons Oramel, {{sic|Rosell}} and daughter Cornelia.

In 1868, at the age of 48, Rosell Hough returned from a career as an alderman and a businessman in Chicago, and saw that the area had become a farming center for [[maize|corn]] and [[flax]]. He opened the Illinois Linen Company on the northwest corner off of what is now Roselle Road and Irving Park Road. Hough was also the president of the Chicago and Pacific Railroad Company. It is rumored that because of his position, he spent some money to alter a land survey to show that a railroad line should run through Roselle, [[Itasca, Illinois|Itasca]] and [[Wood Dale, Illinois|Wood Dale]] instead of [[Addison, Illinois|Addison]] and [[Bloomingdale, Illinois|Bloomingdale]]. The train schedule misprinted the name of the town on the rail line, giving Roselle its current name.<ref name=historical_foundation>{{cite web |url=http://www.roselle.il.us/community/historicaloverview.html |title=Village of Roselle, Illinois – Historical Overview |author=Roselle Historical Museum |year=2004 |access-date=October 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012060133/http://www.roselle.il.us/community/historicaloverview.html |archive-date=October 12, 2007 }}</ref>