Download Tree Word Search
KHS Curator, Joseph Gackstetter, created a word search of the variety of trees found in Colleen Kilner’s book “Kenilworth Tree Stories”. Download, print and enjoy.
In 1889, Joseph Sears planned a North Shore village where he purchased 223 acres of woodland, pasture, and wetlands located between Wilmette and Winnetka. Much of the land purchased was overgrown with wild blackberry bushes and covered with native oak, hickory, and butternut trees.
The Kenilworth Company built municipal features that protected the existing trees, making the village especially attractive to potential homeowners. Although Kenilworth lost many elms to Dutch Elm disease in the 1960s, other mature specimen trees remain outstanding landscape features.
Each year the Village of Kenilworth organizes an “Annual Parkway Tree Donation Program”. This program offers residents a variety of arborist-recommended trees for planting in the Village’s parkway. The program is a way to help keep Kenilworth’s neighborhoods safe and beautiful. The Parkway Tree Planting program is designed to replace trees in a way that is good forestry practice to help maintain our Urban Forest. Contact the Village if you would like to participate.