John Deere's Home
The John Deere Home provides an intimate glimpse of pioneer life. Deere built the home when he arrived in Grand Detour in 1836 and later added sections to accommodate the growing Deere family. The rooms are furnished exactly as the Deere family would have furnished them and contain actual household objects that show how pioneers cooked, cleaned, bathed, and spent leisure hours.
Today, the home has four rooms on the main floor and two rooms on the upper level, each with a separate stairway. It's believed that one of the upper rooms was for John Deere's apprentice and the other was the children's bedroom.
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