The mail was received at Mulford's cabin, which had expanded to become a tavern known as Ten-Mile House for its distance from Chicago on the Green Bay stage route. On April 26, 1850, the name of the Gross Point post office was changed to Ridgeville. Some early records use the name Ridgevill for the township. Ridgeville Township came into existence in April 1850, with its first elections held on April 2, 1850. The community was within the large and undefined voting district, north of the then-existing Chicago city limits, known as Gross Point. Frances Willard in her 1891 history of Evanston associated the name with a log cabin, built in approximately 1835, southwest of what became Evanston, by former Major Edward Henry Mulford, the first jeweler in the area. Loyola professor Patricia Melvin-Mooney states that a small community of German and Luxembourger farmers settled near the present-day intersection of Ridge and Devon Avenue in the 1830s, and the community became known as Ridgeville. ( June 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this article by verifying these references and challenge or remove any that are not reliable or do not support the article. An editor has expressed concern that this section may have a number of irrelevant and questionable citations.
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