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87 West First Street
Sugar Grove, IL 60554

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On the 22nd day of November 1838, a man popularly known as “Boss” Read, who still lives in Blackberry, erected for P.Y. Bliss a frame house, which is still occupied by its original owner, on its original site. In the Spring of 1839, the Methodists…

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Horse drawn wagon rides given at Holiday in the grove.

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Holiday in the Grove is a festive community event that includes Breakfast with Santa, Candy Cane Lane, Carriage Rides, a Craft Fair and many other holiday activities throughout the day in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Holiday in the Grove is volunteer-ran…

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Holiday in the Grove is a festive community event that includes Breakfast with Santa, Candy Cane Lane, Carriage Rides, a Craft Fair and many other holiday activities throughout the day in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Holiday in the Grove is volunteer-ran…

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People riding in horse-drawn wagon while visiting the various stops during Holiday in the Grove.

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Holiday in the Grove is a festive community event that includes Breakfast with Santa, Candy Cane Lane, Carriage Rides, a Craft Fair and many other holiday activities throughout the day in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Holiday in the Grove is volunteer-ran…

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Holiday in the Grove is a festive community event that includes Breakfast with Santa, Candy Cane Lane, Carriage Rides, a Craft Fair and many other holiday activities throughout the day in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Holiday in the Grove is volunteer-ran…

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Holiday in the Grove is a festive community event that includes Breakfast with Santa, Candy Cane Lane, Carriage Rides, a Craft Fair and many other holiday activities throughout the day in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Holiday in the Grove is volunteer-ran…

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Holiday in the Grove is a festive community event that includes Breakfast with Santa, Candy Cane Lane, Carriage Rides, a Craft Fair and many other holiday activities throughout the day in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Holiday in the Grove is volunteer-ran…

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Holiday in the Grove is a festive community event that includes Breakfast with Santa, Candy Cane Lane, Carriage Rides, a Craft Fair and many other holiday activities throughout the day in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Holiday in the Grove is volunteer-ran…

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Riders include Peg Johnson and Dorothy Johnson.

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After the first Uncle Tom's Cabin burned down in 1879, new residential housing, West's Hotel, was built in 1880 on the same site at the northwest corner of Main St. and the Railroad Tracks.

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"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…

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Printed on the front:HOTEL WEST SUGAR GROVE ILL

Stamped on the back:

W. W. VAN OSDEL. PHOTOGRAPHER
AURORA, ILL

The ornate building that served as the boarding house for student scholars called Uncle Tom's Cabin was destroyed by fire in…
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