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Handwritten note on the sketch indicates:

The barn sketched in the drawing is believed to have contained logs from one of the first log cabins in Sugar Grove Township, which had been on the north side of Blackberry Creek in what became the T. & A.…

Drawing of a farm

Older Homes and Schools, Sugar Grove Township
Kane County, Illinois
(not including the original village)

Drawings are from the 1871 Atlas of Kane County

Locations circled in red on the 1871 map still exist. The ones in green are…

Part of a series of sketches drawn in 1871 of prominent homesteads in Sugar Grove Township.

Quoted from 10-1-2022 News Article in "Kane County Connects":

Historic Kane County Farm Given National Designation
Kane County Connects Staff 10/1/2022…