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This excursion steamboat, known as the “White Fawn,” took sightseers up and down the Des Plaines River fir a few decades starting around the mid 1869s. Guests visited Haase park a popular picnic grove where Forest Home Cemetery is today. The grove took its name from it’s owner, Ferdinand Haase, an early settler in town.