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No information (Assume New School)

No information (Assume New School)

Parking lot at New Grade School, looking N.E.

Waubonsee Community College,
South entrance on Rt 47

Waubonsee Community College sign,
South entrance on Rt 47

The Sugar Grove Center School was built in the fall of 1848. It was a two story building on the east side of Main Street about where the street now ends near the present Route 30. The first floor was school rooms and the second floor was a large…

PHOTO

BACK ROW L-R:
Louis Richards, Charlie Calkins, Roswell "Spiv" Keck

MIDDLE ROW L-R:
Principal Chappelear, Edward Johnson. Captain elect: Clayton Coddington, Captain: Ferdinand Harker


BOTTOM ROW, L-R:
La Verne Schmidt, Ralph…

Galena Blvd. & Densmore Rd.

Another former school now converted into a private home is the old Grouse School standing high on a gravel bank on the northeast side of Harter Road between Illinois Route 47 and Scott Road.

Thomas Judd had for some years favored the idea of an industrial school which would teach agriculture as well as preparatory to going on to other vocations. He was also aware that Frank Hall, then Superintendent of West Aurora Schools, had similar…

Issued by Edwin M. Harris, Kane County Superintendent of Schools

Printed commencement program for the class of 1887. It was held in Snow's Barn.

School located at 163 Main Street