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At Sugar Grove the first log cabin was raised in 1836, with nails, sawed boards and shingle roof; a tavern was built in 1836; a post office established in 1840. The first "store" was opened in 1839 by P. Y. Bliss, who built a frame house…

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3. Ruell Mighell
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5. Professor L.W. Hanns
6. Teacher
7. Luella L. Vaughn
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FIRST ROW L-R:
Donald Myers, Bob Erwin, Groff Frantz, Frank O'Brien, Tom Frantz

SECOND ROW L-R:
Chuck Clerkins, Charlie Huggins, John Shields, Jr., Leslie Phillips, Wallace Thomas, Frank Damon - Manager

THIRD ROW L-R: Art Johnson -…

SUGAR GROVE HIGH SCHOOL
1932-1933 Basketball Squad

BACK ROW
Art Johnson - Coach
Warren Dugan
Elmer Gordon
Deverl Hartman
Darwin Valentine
Frank Damon
Leslie Phillips

MIDDLE ROW
Wally Thomas
John Shields
Charley Huggins
Byron…

CHARTER MEMBERS
(Charter Banquet June 19, 1970)

Clyne Adair, Robert Appel, Len Beririger, David Brown, Russell Carter, Carl Claesson, Dennis Cronin, Elmo Cummings, Richard Cunningham, William Dorian, James Dowen, Floyd Fleming, George E. Gould,…

SOURCE: Fox River Trolley Museum https://www.foxtrolley.org/history

Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Railroad: This line ran west from its connection with the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad Company and had four branches with western terminals…

The Outlaw Farm was located on the Silas Reynolds property in Section 22 of Sugar Grove Township, south of the Chicago and Iowa Railroad. John Outlaw’s family cabin was built in the 1850s on the Silas Reynolds property approximately 0.5 miles south…