Historic Cane Hill, a non-profit organization currently restoring many historic sites in the community, also operates a museum. 1  June 11, 2015. 2  Tales of the Trail, Trail of Tears.
John Warne Gates (May 18, 1855 â August 9, 1911), also known as Bet-a-Million Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist, who was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire. He was born and raised in what is now West Chicago, Illinois.
John Roach (shipbuilder) For other people named John Roach, see John Roach (disambiguation). John Roach (December 25, 1815 â January 10, 1887) was an American industrialist who rose from humble origins as an Irish immigrant laborer to found the largest and most productive shipbuilding empire in the postbellum United States, John Roach & Sons.