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…
This picture was taken at the Benson Farm a mile west of Sugar Grove, Illinois, on Prairie Street. The wagon and spotted mule team were owned by the late Will A. Johnson Sr. of Sugar Grove.
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The Will and Marie (Laycock) Johnson home at 263 Main Street was constructed in 1906 for Lydia Finley, who never lived in the house. It was initially the residence of farm employees of the Finley farm. It was…