Rollin’ down the (Des Plaines) river

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.