| A | B |
|---|
| Christopher Payne | Batavia's first settler |
| 1833 | the year Batavia was settled |
| Joel McKee | built the first store |
| Judge Isaac Wilson | named Batavia after his home in New York |
| corduroy road | a road made of logs |
| John vanNortwick | had one of the largest paper mills in Illinois |
| windmills | made power to pump water |
| US Wind Engine and Pump Company | large windmill factory |
| bucket brigade | passing buckets of water from person to person to fight fires |
| Bernard J. Cigrand | Batavia dentist who helped create Flag Day |
| Black Hawk | Sauk Indian chief |
| William Coffin | opened a private bank |
| Alice Gustafson | taught school in Batavia for 40 years |
| John Gustafson | author of the book Historic Batavia |
| Depot Museum | historic train station turned into a museum |
| Marilyn Robinson | author of Little Town in a Big Woods |
| ice harvesting | process of gathering ice from the frozen river |
| limestone | stone mined from a quarry |
| Samuel D. Lockwood | gave Abraham Lincoln his law exam |
| Sauks, Foxes, Winnebagoes, and Pottawatomies | Northern Indian tribes |
