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Hotel North Sitting Room
Down Stairs

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1984

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5-'87

1936

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Don Meyer - MC Speaking

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60 Maple, Art Healy, Ardon Perschnick, Jerry Hall - Elburn Postmaster, Harold Potter - LaFox Postmaster, Jim Fitzgerald

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Albert & Gladys Lash - Big Rock,
Helen Humiston,
Margaret McBeth (Lois Graham sister-in-law),
Carl & Margaret Boettcher

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Harold Potter - La Fox Postmaster, Frank McCannon, Bill Keck, Margaret & Ellis Grayer

1960 Dedication for Maple St Post Office.pdf
In September 1960, Sugar Grove celebrated the dedication of the U.S. Post Office building at 60 Maple Street.

Speakers at the dedication event included Don Myer (Congressman), Stanley Dyer (Post Service Officer), and Vern Graham…

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Big Rock Legion Post color guard raising flag,
Photos by Robert Myers of Aurora

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Ralph Hartman, Postmaster inside Sugar Grove Train Depot

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The barn sketched in the drawing is believed to have contained logs from one of the first log cabins in Sugar Grove Township, which had been on the north side of Blackberry Creek in what became the T. & A.…

Library
First Borrower - Miss Minnie Dugan (right), who has resided in Big Rock Township all of her 80 years, is shown receiving the first library pass card to Sugar Grove's new library. The presentation was made Friday afternoon by Mrs. Grace McCannon…

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2017-05-02
Wheeler Rd. Farm

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2017-05-01

Elmar Kreigbaum
Back Tractor
Farm Wheeler Rd.

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145 Calkins Dr., Sugar Grove, IL

In 1865, this school was originally built at the top of the hill near 41W455 Denny Rd. It was built just east of an old log house school that was previously located near the corner of Denny and Bliss Rd. This…

Sugar Grove Fire Station c. 1946
220 S. Main St. Sugar Grove, IL

The first fire station was built on a lot donated by Teresa Keck, widow of William Keck, at 220 Main Street, Sugar Grove, Illinois. At first, all fire calls were answered on phones in Keck's Store as well as tht…

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214 S. Main St., Sugar Grove, IL

Cooper / Needham / Knudson Hall and Blacksmith Shop, Built by Geo. Wolf; late 1800s,

Advertisement reads: "C.J. Knudson, Practical Horse-Shoeing, General Repair Work in Wood and Iron."

The building at 214…

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60 Maple Street, Sugar Grove, IL

Until August 8, 1840, mail had to be taken to Naperville, fifteen miles away, and cost 25 cents to mail. A post office was opened in the Thomas Slater home which stood at the northwest corner of Galena and Route…
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