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Copies of this book are available from the Sugar Grove Historical Society. Online ordering and shipping is available on our website
https://www.sugargrovehistory.org/

and through the Bliss House Store…

This picture was taken at the Benson Farm a mile west of Sugar Grove, Illinois, on Prairie Street. The wagon and spotted mule team were owned by the late Will A. Johnson Sr. of Sugar Grove.

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a…

Riders include Peg Johnson and Dorothy Johnson.

The Sugar Grove Center School was built in the fall of 1848. It was a two story building on the east side of Main Street about where the street now ends near the present Route 30. The first floor was school rooms and the second floor was a large…

The Sugar Grove Center School was built in the fall of 1848. It was a two story building on the east side of Main Street about where the street now ends near the present Route 30. The first floor was school rooms and the second floor was a large…

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BACK ROW L-R:
Louis Richards, Charlie Calkins, Roswell "Spiv" Keck

MIDDLE ROW L-R:
Principal Chappelear, Edward Johnson. Captain elect: Clayton Coddington, Captain: Ferdinand Harker


BOTTOM ROW, L-R:
La Verne Schmidt, Ralph…

Students and teacher posed at entrance to Sugar Grove School. Note: This is the old school reconstructed in 1905 adjacent to the Community House.

Informational articles, farm interest advertisements and index of Kane County farmers cataloging acreage, disposition of farm, spouse' maiden name and other information.

Interment Jericho Cemetery, Mighell Rd, Sugar Grove, IL

Plat Map

Illinois Supreme Court Ruling

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The Gateway to Citizenship Training

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JULY 4, 1834

First celebration in Kane County was by residents of Sugar Grove township under an elm tree located on this site.

Attending were brothers James, Isaacc, and Lyman Isbell, nephew Parmeno Isbell and James Carman brother-in-law of…