Editing Schaumburg, Illinois (section)

====Sarah's Grove====
The original 1842 township survey names the grove (immediately west of the center of the township, in sections 21 and 22) as Sarah's Grove. Three families lived near a grove of woods on the northwest end of the township, and each family had a woman named Sarah (Sarah McChesney, Sarah Frisbe, and Sarah Smith). At a township meeting in 1850, citizens debated new names for the town. A wealthy landowner named Friedrich Heinrich Nerge, at one point during the meeting, slammed his fist on the table and yelled in [[Low German]], "Schaumburg schall et heiten!" (The English translation: "It will be called Schaumburg!").<!--in the sources "schall" (Low German dialect for English "shall") is misspelled as "ichal", I corrected that. User:Tickle_me --> At that point, the township became officially called Schaumburg.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.intelligentoffice.com/locations/illinois/schaumburg/schaumburg/the-history-of-the-village-of-schaumburg.aspx|title = The History of the Village of Schaumburg|access-date = January 30, 2014|website = Intelligent Office|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091208115409/http://www.intelligentoffice.com/locations/illinois/schaumburg/schaumburg/the-history-of-the-village-of-schaumburg.aspx|archive-date = December 8, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.ci.schaumburg.il.us/offic/history/Pages/MoreontheHistoryofSchaumburg.aspx|title = Schaumburg's History - 1800|access-date = December 23, 2014|website = Village of Schaumburg|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141223224318/http://www.ci.schaumburg.il.us/offic/history/Pages/MoreontheHistoryofSchaumburg.aspx|archive-date = December 23, 2014}}</ref>

The name was taken from Grafschaft [[Schaumburg]] (Schaumburg County) in Germany, then a part of [[Electorate of Hessen|Hessen-Kassel]], now in [[Lower Saxony]]. Most of the township's German settlers were from Schaumburg; many were born in the parish of [[Apelern]]. Some came from [[Hannover]], but the people of Schaumburg had more influence.

Schaumburg Township prospered during its early days. The area's main occupation was farming, with potato growing, dairy products and raising cattle as main sources of income. The land was a very large meadow surrounded by extensive wilderness. Wildlife such as geese, ducks, quail, prairie chickens, rabbits, pheasant and deer were abundant. 
In 1858, a small market area emerged at what is now the intersection of Schaumburg and Roselle roads. Schaumburg Center was the market center for the surrounding agricultural producers. It included two general stores, four cheese factories, a cobbler, a tailor, a wagon maker, and a blacksmith.

Most of the early growth in the northeast region of Illinois occurred along the [[Fox Valley (Illinois)|Fox River Valley]] and the major rail lines. Since neither of these transportation networks served Schaumburg Township at the time, the township remained rather isolated. Few roads existed, and several of those were often impassable. To reach a large market, Schaumburg farmers had to travel {{convert|26|mi}} in ox-drawn or horse-drawn wagons to Chicago, which only had about 35,000 inhabitants at that time.