Thank you for this informative story on the Wheaton Mastodon. I had never heard of this discovery before. I am going to have to take the time to view your other videos on Ice Age DuPage now.
Thanks for delving into this new area and watching our Ice Age videos. There is much prehistory in DuPage, Kane, and Cook, often right in our own backyard! Thanks for supporting our channel!
Thanks for watching this video and for the supportive comments! Yes, in some ways, we found this story to be the most interesting of the four known proboscideans found in DuPage County. But it is the least known. And so thanks again for taking this one in!
@@pattiloechl8991 Yes, there are. If you go to our channel home page, to our playlists ( ruclips.net/user/BeHistoricplaylists ), you'll find a variety of playlists for different topics - such as Ice Age DuPage, Winfield Mounds, St Charles Mounds, Bandits and Vigilantes, CA&E Railways, etc.
Thanks for watching! Very glad that you enjoyed it. It was a very interesting story to work on as well. It was a remarkable chain of events in many ways.
Great work. Loved the ending and bringing the past into the present. History in our own back yard. When trying to figure out how to replace a failed pipe under our patio, the plumber used ground penetrating radar to locate the pipe. He told us there is a large hard object about 10 feet down.. Who knows?
Thanks for watching and commenting! That's an interesting question. There is likely more to be learned about its brief sojourn at the Chicago Academy of Sciences. The Chicago Academy of Sciences museum was the equivalent to the Field Museum for Chicago in its day. And so it is likely that many people saw it mounted there during its brief stay. The Chicago press did not seem impressed, likely because it was missing the skull/head. However, there is much more to learn about this - something for future researches and videos to cover. :-) Thanks again!
Your videos are wonderful!!!! That was so interesting. I look forward to watching future videos and being able to learn more about the history of this area.
They found a bunch when they were digging the lake a phillips park in Aurora theyhave a little museum set up you can see the bones. It's just outside of Dupage in Kane county. I imagine they are a lot more around the area that just haven't been dug up yet.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Yes, we may do the Kane County proboscideans at some point in the future, as there were some excellent specimens taken near Aurora, and other locations, as you mention.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Are you referring to the church parking lot? The actual dig location is likely a few hundred feet east of that parking lot - so more of a suburban neighborhood setting - and the likely placement of Jayne's original mastodon dig was somewhere in the backyards or frontyards of the homes along Stanley Street and Prairie Avenue in unincorporated Winfield/Wheaton. After the excitement of the original find from 1869 settled down, it just became another farm field by the late 1800s and early 1900s - and the location was all but forgotten by the middle of the 20th century. Many of those homes were built in the 1970s and its doubtful that the developers knew anything of the Horace Jayne find there. Had there been anything substantial where they dug foundations (eg, a skull or tusks), there's a good chance it would have been noticed and made it to the newspapers. That suggests to us at least that the house foundations did not overlap the dig site to any significant degree - so perhaps somewhere in the backyards or frontyards of those homes. It's entirely possible that Jayne successfully retrieved all there was to be found there - but it's also very possible that some of the remains of the mastodon are still somewhere in that area, and several feet below the surface. Thanks again!
@@BeHistoric figuratively its a giant parking lot... I love how you put the historical data in as a graphic with pictures and such..Having seen urban sprawl all over the entire chicago area since childhood I have come to hate it..I remember a time when I saw Ring neck pheasants and Bob white quail everywhere..Not anymore... The whole area is one giant bloody parking lot devoid of the diversity of life.No large woodlands, or hedgerows to get lost in anymore...Just people on top of people....Cars, pavement and buffoonery..
Thank you for this informative story on the Wheaton Mastodon. I had never heard of this discovery before. I am going to have to take the time to view your other videos on Ice Age DuPage now.
Thanks for delving into this new area and watching our Ice Age videos. There is much prehistory in DuPage, Kane, and Cook, often right in our own backyard! Thanks for supporting our channel!
Fascinating!
Thank you for watching and commenting! Very glad that you found the video of interest!
Great video. Thanks for making it. The fires are to erase history, so sad.
Thanks for watching this video and for the supportive comments! Yes, in some ways, we found this story to be the most interesting of the four known proboscideans found in DuPage County. But it is the least known. And so thanks again for taking this one in!
Great story! This site is not far from where I live now! How interesting! Thanks.
Thanks very much for watching! Glad that you found it interesting and informative!
@@BeHistoric Are there more videos like this?
@@pattiloechl8991 Yes, there are. If you go to our channel home page, to our playlists ( ruclips.net/user/BeHistoricplaylists ), you'll find a variety of playlists for different topics - such as Ice Age DuPage, Winfield Mounds, St Charles Mounds, Bandits and Vigilantes, CA&E Railways, etc.
Great storytelling! Had to watch from start to finish, loved the open ended conclusion.
Thanks for watching! Very glad that you enjoyed it. It was a very interesting story to work on as well. It was a remarkable chain of events in many ways.
Great work. Loved the ending and bringing the past into the present. History in our own back yard. When trying to figure out how to replace a failed pipe under our patio, the plumber used ground penetrating radar to locate the pipe. He told us there is a large hard object about 10 feet down.. Who knows?
Thank you for watching and glad that you enjoyed the video. There is more in our own backyards than we realize! :-)
Awesome story. I wonder how many people ended up seeing the bones before it went to Chicago and if tickets were ever given out.
Thanks for watching and commenting! That's an interesting question. There is likely more to be learned about its brief sojourn at the Chicago Academy of Sciences. The Chicago Academy of Sciences museum was the equivalent to the Field Museum for Chicago in its day. And so it is likely that many people saw it mounted there during its brief stay. The Chicago press did not seem impressed, likely because it was missing the skull/head. However, there is much more to learn about this - something for future researches and videos to cover. :-) Thanks again!
Your videos are wonderful!!!! That was so interesting. I look forward to watching future videos and being able to learn more about the history of this area.
Thank you very much for the kind words and the support!
They found a bunch when they were digging the lake a phillips park in Aurora theyhave a little museum set up you can see the bones. It's just outside of Dupage in Kane county. I imagine they are a lot more around the area that just haven't been dug up yet.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Yes, we may do the Kane County proboscideans at some point in the future, as there were some excellent specimens taken near Aurora, and other locations, as you mention.
Really well done. Thank you
Thank you for watching and for the kind words!
Is it me or does anyone else feel rather sad this area is now nothing more than a giant parking lot?
Thanks for watching and commenting! Are you referring to the church parking lot? The actual dig location is likely a few hundred feet east of that parking lot - so more of a suburban neighborhood setting - and the likely placement of Jayne's original mastodon dig was somewhere in the backyards or frontyards of the homes along Stanley Street and Prairie Avenue in unincorporated Winfield/Wheaton. After the excitement of the original find from 1869 settled down, it just became another farm field by the late 1800s and early 1900s - and the location was all but forgotten by the middle of the 20th century. Many of those homes were built in the 1970s and its doubtful that the developers knew anything of the Horace Jayne find there. Had there been anything substantial where they dug foundations (eg, a skull or tusks), there's a good chance it would have been noticed and made it to the newspapers. That suggests to us at least that the house foundations did not overlap the dig site to any significant degree - so perhaps somewhere in the backyards or frontyards of those homes. It's entirely possible that Jayne successfully retrieved all there was to be found there - but it's also very possible that some of the remains of the mastodon are still somewhere in that area, and several feet below the surface. Thanks again!
@@BeHistoric figuratively its a giant parking lot... I love how you put the historical data in as a graphic with pictures and such..Having seen urban sprawl all over the entire chicago area since childhood I have come to hate it..I remember a time when I saw Ring neck pheasants and Bob white quail everywhere..Not anymore... The whole area is one giant bloody parking lot devoid of the diversity of life.No large woodlands, or hedgerows to get lost in anymore...Just people on top of people....Cars, pavement and buffoonery..
@@crzrck Ah, understood. The landscape has indeed changed dramatically over the past few hundred years.