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[[File:Pine Craig (5978097719).jpg|thumb|right|The Martin-Mitchell Mansion, within the [[Naper Settlement]] outdoor museum, is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in DuPage County, Illinois|National Register of Historic Places]]]]

Before any settlement, Naperville was home to Native American tribes. In 1641, the first EurpopeanEuropean contact with Native Americans in Illinois was made with members of the [[Illinois Confederation|Iliniwek]] tribe. The Iliniwek was the predominant tribe throughout Illinois at the time. They were later forced off the land by the [[Potawatomi]] tribe. The Potawatomi inhabited Naperville when the first settlers arrived.<ref>{{cite web|date=2014-01-15|title=The Curious Curator – Before Naper|url=https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2014/01/15/curious-curator-naper/30190|access-date=2022-01-05|website=Positively Naperville|language=en-US|archive-date=April 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409092759/https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2014/01/15/curious-curator-naper/30190|url-status=live}}</ref> There was a major Potawatomi village at the present site of downtown Naperville, reached from Chicago by a trail that became Ogden Avenue. A minor village was near where Bailey Hobson later built his mill in 1834.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schmidt |first=Royal J. |title=The Potawatomi Indians of DuPage County |publisher=Du Page County Historical Society |year=1974 |location=Wheaton, Illinois |pages=12}}</ref>

In 1831, [[Joseph Naper]] arrived at the west bank of the [[DuPage River]] with his family and friends to found what would be known as Naper's Settlement.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/872352/kanedupage_county_il_toponym_origins/|title=Several Towns Named After Founders and Heroes|date=December 28, 1999|newspaper=The Daily Herald|page=220|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=August 17, 2014|archive-date=August 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140818223456/http://www.newspapers.com/clip/872352/kanedupage_county_il_toponym_origins/|url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> Among those original settlers were Naper's wife, his brother and his wife, his sister and her husband [[John Murray (Naperville founder)|John Murray]], and his mother. Their arrival followed a nearly two-month voyage from [[Ashtabula County, Ohio]], in the Naper brothers' [[schooner]], the ''Telegraph''.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |date=2019-09-23 |title=Naperville |url=https://dupagehistory.org/dupage-roots/naperville/ |access-date=2022-01-05 |website=DuPage County Historical Society |language=en |archive-date=April 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409092759/https://dupagehistory.org/dupage-roots/naperville/ |url-status=live }}</ref>