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Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174

Older Homes and Schools, Sugar Grove Township
Kane County, Illinois
(not including the original village)

Drawings are from the 1871 Atlas of Kane County

Locations circled in red on the 1871 map still exist. The ones in green are…

Jedediah Harris Bliss, son of Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss), moved the original little Bliss House across Bliss Road from west to east to build the Big Bliss House at 754 Bliss Road in Sugar Grove in 1897. The original little Bliss House was moved…

Click on the PDF Document to view the sketches of prominent Sugar Grove Homesteads from the 1871 Atlas of Kane County alongside the modern streetscape of 2020.

Jedediah Harris Bliss, son of Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss), moved the original little Bliss House across Bliss Road from west to east to build the Big Bliss House at 754 Bliss Road in Sugar Grove in 1897. The original little Bliss House was moved…

Jedediah Harris Bliss, son of Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss), moved the original little Bliss House across Bliss Road from west to east to build the Big Bliss House at 754 Bliss Road in Sugar Grove in 1897. The original little Bliss House was moved…

Jedediah Harris Bliss, son of Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss), moved the original little Bliss House across Bliss Road from west to east to build the Big Bliss House at 754 Bliss Road in Sugar Grove in 1897. The original little Bliss House was moved…

Excerpts from:

"Elgin: An American History"
by E. C. Alft
Published online by ElginHistory.com
Copyright 2000 - All Rights Reserved

Chapter II. The Dividing Line
...
1. Anti-Slavery

The slavery question was argued in Elgin from the…

The Cooper-Needham Blacksmith Shop was built in the late 1800s at 214 Main Street.

POSTCARD

To: Mrs. Mary E. Dugan, Big Rock, Illinois

Dear Mary:

Two days I've been ready to come down there but both times someone has come. I guess C.…

Handwritten Inscription:

Dear Cousin,

I guess if I wait to write a letter, it will be longer than ever, so I'll just send you a card. Why wouldn't your wirte once in a while? I have a cold that has made me nearly sick so much so that I had to…

Sugar Grove Township Servicemen from Mexican War, Civil War, World War Veterans
The plaque is located inside the Sugar Grove Community Building.

PLAQUE READS:

This building dedicated to the men of Sugar Grove Township known and unknown who…

Handwritten Note on first photo:

Clarence Galor
Miller's Store - Pool Hall - Ice Cream Parlor on the east side of Main St. just before the Railroad tracks.
Located where Watson Store was.

Circa 1918-1919

Reprint Dated…