Articles

• Bliss House Move

  September 30, 2025

• The Jericho Church aka Mount Prospect Free Mission Church

  September 30, 2025

• Sugar Grove History#5: Part 2

  In addition to the spread of devastating diseases throughout villages, towns, and cities in the eastern United States starting in the 1790s, the establishment of the eastern canal systems and…

  August 30, 2024

• Sugar Grove History #5: Part 1

  At the Sugar Grove Historical Society, many inquire about why so many settlers pushed westward in the 1830s. That is a complex question with many contributing factors. One thing that…

  July 30, 2024

• Sugar Grove History #4: Early Settlers

  After the end of the Blackhawk War in 1832, a land rush began across the northern third of the state of Illinois. In late April 1834, Asa McDole, from New…

  May 30, 2024

• Sugar Grove History #3

  Indigenous communities have inhabited Sugar Grove Township and Illinois for thousands of years. The earliest known Paleo-Indian group was the Clovis Culture, around 12,000 years ago. The Clovis (spear) point,…

  April 30, 2024

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  Sugar Grove History #2

  The area, now known as Sugar Grove Township, gradually recovered from the ice age, and pine forests grew; next, oak and hickory trees started to replace the pine. The seeds…

  March 30, 2024

• Sugar Grove History #1

  Have you ever noticed the immense boulders around Sugar Grove Township?Some have been used as memorials, such as the Bolster Boulder and hitching post with plaque, now located in the…

  February 24, 2024