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.
In November of 1918 a trip via train to a football game in Chicago was arranged for soldiers at Camp Grant in Rockford. The route took the train on the CB&Q line through Sugar Grove, Illinois 9 Nov 1918. On that day the excursion train from Camp…
The Jericho School was formerly located at short distance east of the corner of Jericho Road and Mighell Road in Sugar Grove, Illinois. This building was torn down after the school district consolidation in 1949.
The current residence was formerly the Denny Standard School/Valley View School, which was a single room school house located on the south side of Denny Road just east of Bliss Road. It was moved to it's current location on Calkins Drive in the…