From "Sugar Grove, Illinois 1834 - 1984" by Ruth Frantz and Frank Damon:
"Spring of 1834 - Black Swamp, Ohio, six men happened to make camp together: Asa McDole from Chemung County, New York; brothers James and Isaac Isbell; nephew Parmeno…
Another former school now converted into a private home is the old Grouse School standing high on a gravel bank on the northeast side of Harter Road between Illinois Route 47 and Scott Road.