Albert Alonzo Durham filed the first donation land claim here in 1850 and named the place Oswego after his New York hometown. In 1864, John Corse Trullinger bought Durham's sawmill on Sucker Creek, and in 1866, on this 87-acre portion of land, Trullinger filed the plat of Oswego in 1867 and named the streets for notable local citizens, institutions, and its founder, Durham. Wilbur, Leonard, Ladd, and Green streets honored men who played prominent roles in the development of Oswego's iron industry, Church Street took its name from the Episcopal Church, which had a boys' school in the area, and Furnace Street marked the road following the river to the iron works.