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Newspaper Article Transcription:

SUGAR GROVE LANDMARK MAKES WAY FOR PROGRESS

On Galena Road (Business 30), what has been know as Myers Hill for years, is to be cut down and widened, thereby requiring the demolition of the first Post Office in…

Newspaper Article Transcription:

SUGAR GROVE LANDMARK MAKES WAY FOR PROGRESS

On Galena Road (Business 30), what has been know as Myers Hill for years, is to be cut down and widened, thereby requiring the demolition of the first Post Office in…

The photo depicts CB&Q Railroad [Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad] depot at Sugar Grove, Illinois, looking eastward in the 1940s. To the right on the opposite side of the rails is the Sugar Grove Grain and Lumber Company lumber shed. An…

The Sugar Grove Center School was built in the fall of 1848. It was a two story building on the east side of Main Street about where the street now ends near the present Route 30. The first floor was school rooms and the second floor was a large…

The Sugar Grove Center School was built in the fall of 1848. It was a two story building on the east side of Main Street about where the street now ends near the present Route 30. The first floor was school rooms and the second floor was a large…

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Information about the Sugar Grove Historical Society from a presentation.

Clare Groff Frantz: Wheels of Fortune Motorcycle Club, 1971 Beacon News
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BEACON NEWS, AURORA, ILLINOIS
Tuesday August 17, 1971

CLASSIC CYCLE

This 1941 Indian "4," owned by Wheels of Fortune Motorcycle Club…

The oak staircase in the Ira Judd House was crafted by The Foster Munger Co. in Chicago and cost $79.50 at the time. A description of the sales brochure is transcribed below.

THE FOSTER MUNGER CO, CHICAGO, STAIRWAY

This flight of stairs…

Handwritten Names on Back of Photo:

BACK ROW
George Lye?, Nan Lye, Eugen Kinney, Warren Kinney, Nelle Lye Johnson, Mattie Kinney, Will Johnson Sr., Kenneth "Scoop" Johnson

MIDDLE ROW
Everette Lye, Les Kinney, Lucille Johnson, Mabel Lye,…

Will Johnson Sr with grandson Rick Johnson at Main St. Ricks's third birthday 1950. Location Main and Maple Streets, Sugar Grove, IL