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S/G Fire Department Practice, White house on curve toward Rt. 47 "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, White house on curve toward Rt. 47 "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, Firemen, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, White house on curve toward Rt. 47 "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, White house on curve East on Galena, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Truck at Practice, house on curve, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice - Galena, house on farm on curve toward Rt 47, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, Barn/Silo on curve, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, Large Barn on curve going toward Rt. 47, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Fire Fighters at Practice, house on curve, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Engine at Practice, house on curve toward #47, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, house on curve, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, house on curve, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, house on curve, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, house on curve, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, house on curve, "Hankes Farm"

S/G Fire Department Practice, house on curve, almost to Rt. 47, "Hankes Farm"

Sketches of Following Homesteads were drawn in 1871:

Benjamin, L - Section 19
Bliss, PY - Section 10
Chapman, Henry - Section 8
Cole, F - Section 2
Densmore, HB - Section 14
Fikes, George - Section 25
George, B - Section 24
Gillett, LH -…

The building of the Sugar Grove Supply Company located at 221 Main Street was built in 1893. It later burned down around 1918 and became the site of Keck's Store.

The concrete bridge abutments in Bliss Woods were poured by John H. Bloomdahl, Contractor from Geneva, Illinois in 1938 during the time that the Civilian Conservation Corps was doing work to develop natural resources in rural lands owned by federal,…