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“For fifty years Frank H. Hall helped the youth of our land to solve arithmetical problems. For fifty years, he helped the teachers to solve pedagogical problems. For fifty years he helped everyone with who he associated to solve humanitarian…

“It was clear, cold, and quiet on the morning of January 5, 1893, when a man of medium height and vigorous physique, bright-eyed and bespectacled, his face adorned with a soup-strainer moustache and a small goatee, jumped lightly from the Chicago and…

“I cannot remember all of the buildings in town but my memory is sufficiently definite so that I can give the reader a fairly good picture of the village as it was at that time. “

“First there was the depot built beside one of the highways of the…

"Historical: The first settlements were made in this Township in ay, 1884, by Jas. Isbell, Chauncy Isbell, Asa McDole, and James Carmon. P.Y. Bliss, one of the pioneers of this Township, erected a Store where his residence now stands, and for…

"Hotel West. Twenty-seven years of continuous service for Sugar Grove. The following is printed from a Catalogue of Sugar Grove School 1895: 'Wm. West, our able hotel man, the owner and proprietor of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' furnishes table board from…

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,…

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.

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 -…

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

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

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

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