Although he was not the first landowner within what eventually became the corporate boundaries of La Grange, one Franklin Dwight Cossitt is considered the founder of the village -- having laid out the community from a tract of land he bought from pioneer farmer Robert Leitch once dubbed "Kensington Heights" sometime after 1870.
To commemorate the founding of La Grange, sixth-grade students at Cossitt Elementary School
were scheduled to host members of the La Grange Area Historical Society at a 130th birthday party in the school's multipurpose room at 10 a.m Wednesday, June 3.
Candles on a cake will be blown out by a direct descendant of Cossitt, who will also give an historical presentation about Cossitt.
Interestingly enough, a home on the southeast corner of Peck and Ogden is still comprised of two rooms that were part of the original Leitch farmhouse. The structure was the homestead for Leitch, his wife Mary and their eight children, on a 440-acre farm he first purchased in 1845.
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