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From Farms to Fermilab: Keeping the Frontier Alive
Adrienne Kolb, Fermilab ArchivistBig Rock Historical Society
March 11, 2004
Fermilab History Projects
Fermilab Site History CommitteeLillian Hoddeson, historian
Karyl Louwenaar, early researcher
The Anderson Farm1885 - 1968
The Bartholomew Farm
1865 - 1969
The White Farm
The Feldott Farm1847 - 1969
The Kames Farm1917-1969
The Warne Farm1893 - 1968
The McKee Farm1889 - 1971
Schools on the Site
Big Woods School, 1908Students of Round Grove School, 1914Big Woods School, around 1929
Apostolic Church, site of former Buelter School, Wilson Street, 1968
The local map, 1966
The Village of Weston
The plaque acknowledging the contributions of the Village of Weston.
It was installed in November, 1968.
The National Accelerator Laboratory1966 - 1974
Weston selected1966
Wilson speaking to staff in the Village
1970
Flag raising, 1968
Robert Wilson, Director 1967 - 1978
Creation of the Laboratory
Linac, 1968
Main Ring, 1969
Archaeology
Dr. Ann Early reviews some of the artifacts she found in her 1970 survey of the NAL site.
Recalling the Frontier
The buffalo herd came to Fermilab from Colorado and Wyoming in September, 1969.
Prairie Restoration
The 6,800 acres of the open space of the Laboratory has been protected since 1971.
Planting trees on Arbor Days
1978
May 13, 1982May 5, 1989
Native American Artifacts
Augie Mier from Batavia donated the collection of arrowheads he found on the site to the Laboratory in 1978.
Pioneer Cemetery
Rededication by members of the Kane County Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Warrenville American Legion on September 24, 1972.
19681995
From NAL to Fermilab
The design energy of 200 GeV was reached in March 1972.
In May 1974 the Laboratory was dedicated and renamed Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory.
Italian physicist
Enrico Fermi
Physics on the Frontier
Leon Lederman, Director 1979 - 1989
Dedication of the Tevatron, 1985
Detecting particle collisions at Fermilab
Lederman wins the Nobel Prize, October 1988
Education Outreach
Leon M. Lederman Science Education Center
A National Environmental Research Park preserving open space in Illinois
A National Environmental Research Park preserving open space in Illinois
John Peoples, Director1989 - 1999
Main Injector Groundbreaking, March 22, 1993
The Main Injector was added to Fermilab’s Tevatron in 1999
The History and Archives Project website can be found at
http://www.fnal.gov/projects/history/