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Miller's Store (Ice Cream Parlor and Pool Hall) and early Post Office can be seen on the right hand side of the street.

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The former Sugar Grove Fire Station on Main St. photographed here was built in 1973. The Fire Department built a new Fire Station on Municipal Dr. and Route 30. The former location on Main St. was converted into an office for the Sugar Grove Park…

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Newspaper Article and Photo:

"Sugar Grove Boy Honored at College"

Ben McCannon, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. B.G. McCannon, a graduate of Sugar Grove high school,, has been initiated by the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Iowa State college at…

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SUGAR GROVE, VILLAGE OF CULTURE

The Sugar Grove area was first settled by three Isbell brothers (form Ohio) in 1834, who found an Indian encampment near the grove. A post office was established in 1840, a public…

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Sign in the front lawn at the Bliss House Museum commemorating the history of the house and the creation of the museum as the third place award winner in the 2000 Illinois Governor's Hometown Awards Program.

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P.Y. Bliss House

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As part of the "The Fox Runs Through it: Tales and Trails of the Fox River Valley", the history of the Bliss House and the creation of the museum was commemorated as the third place award winner in the 2000 Illinois Governor's Hometown Awards…

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If walls could talk, think of the stories the walls of the Bliss House could tell! The white frame structure with the brick filled walls stands on its new foundation south of the tracks on Main Street in Sugar Grove, filled with records and memoirs…
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