![]() Corn was an important crop for the initial settlers to provide grain for cornmeal to eat and to feed horses and livestock. Many weddings and graduating seniors still use the front of the building as a backdrop for photos.Ī horse and plow represent the first industry around Highland because early settlers needed to provide food for the family. ![]() After 100 years of playing an important part of life in Highland as a brewery, it succumbed to its competition after World War II. Higher on the mural is a representation of the Schott Brewery, which was established around 1887. Wehrle using the title “Sempacherlied.” Ultimately, the song became one of Switzerland’s anthems. Heinrich Bosshard lived in Highland and was well-known in Switzerland for writing the poem “The Song of Sempach.” The poem, which is about the Battle of Sempach which gave Switzerland its independence from Austria on July 9, 1386, was set to music by J. To the left of the bell tower in the mural is the Bosshard Monument, which is currently in Lindendale Park. Jonathon Pierce, of Boy Scout Troup #8040 in Highland, is planning to build flower boxes to be placed around its base as part of his Eagle Scout Project. Keep an eye out for it because it is being revived and placed in the block east of the current City Hall, preserving some of Highland’s history in the new parking lot on Broadway. The bell tower icon in the first arch to the left of the church represents the bell tower that was originally atop the first Highland City Hall. The German Evangelical Church, which had been using the schoolhouse for services, decided to build the “Stone Church” on Methodist Hill (Zschokke & 12 th Streets) and is represented by the first icon on the mural. The first schoolhouse was used as a church as well as a school, but it burned down in 1850. Turning the corner of the building, you will see representation of several icons of Highland’s history. The farmers found that clearing the prairies covered in grass was easier to complete than clearing wooded areas before planting. Highland had many nicknames for various areas like Looking Glass Prairie. But because the Highland near Chicago was renamed Highland Park, Helvetia became Highland once more in 1843. During the year 1840, the postmaster was advised that Highland’s name should be changed to Helvetia since there was a town named Highland near Chicago. The settlers from Switzerland named their town New Switzerland in 1831, but when it was platted in 1837, it was given the name Highland. Most of the settlers coming after that time, came through New Orleans. The settlers wrote back to relatives following them that this way of traveling was most tedious, and they would find an easier path by going to the south entrance of the Mississippi River through New Orleans. The first settlers of Highland came from Sursee, Switzerland, by boat into New York, up the Hudson River to Albany, by canal to Buffalo, then Lake Erie by steamboat to Cleveland, Ohio, by the Ohio canal to Dresden and then a flatboat down the Muskingum River to Marietta, and down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River and north to the St. Weinheimer’s likeness to the photo inside the building!Īs you turn off Broadway onto Pine Street, you’ll see one archway with a road and a street sign which reads: “Highland/Looking Glass Prairie” on one sign, “Sursee, Switzerland” on another and “New Orleans” on the third. Deborah “Moe” Moellering painted the three cut out figures installed next to the mural. They were assisted onsite by Andy Cross (set painter for The St. Made possible in part by a $10,000 matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a mural was designed and painted on the side of the Weinheimer Community Center at the corner of Main and Pine Streets in Highland, Illinois, by Robert and Liza Fishbone of On the Wall Productions from St. Highland Mural –History Becoming a Flight into the Future
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