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South of Wheeler Rd

A photo of the Reynolds / Judd House, now located in the Prestbury Subdivision on 10 Winthrop New Road, Sugar Grove.

Shacking oats at Sauer Farm in the 1950's
L to R:
Owen Marley, Earl Kirk, boy Jack Marley, Cluster Ramey, Leigh Sauer Jr., Leigh Sauer Sr.

Sauer Farm about in the 1950's. Barns aren't there anymore due to the 1990 tornado. Silo was take down by Leigh Sauer Jr.

On the Ground: Leigh Sauer Sr.
1st Wagon: Earl (Dean) Kirk
2nd Wagon: Leigh Sauer Jr.

Men and a tractor at Mighell Farm

A old collaseped building at Hankes Farm

A photo of a house and a farm

The exterior and interior of Nelson and Stella Myers House

Newspaper Article Transcription:

SUGAR GROVE LANDMARK MAKES WAY FOR PROGRESS

On Galena Road (Business 30), what has been know as Myers Hill for years, is to be cut down and widened,…

Aerial view of Hankes farm with labels

Drawing of a farm

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.…

2017-05-02
Wheeler Rd. Farm

2017-05-01

Elmar Kreigbaum
Back Tractor
Farm Wheeler Rd.

"Meeting Development Halfway" is an article in the newspaper in 1986 about the sale of Bliss Wood Farm, which was homesteaded by Peleg Young Bliss in 1844, to develop Strafford Woods residential area.

Cooper-Needham Blacksmith Shop, Built by Geo. Wolf; late 1800s, Pictures courtesy of: Vivian Needham

Drawing dated on back: 3-27-1996

Cooper / Needham / Knudson Hall and Blacksmith Shop, Built by Geo. Wolf; late 1800s,

Advertisement reads:…

Sin- Qua-Sip,” the Indian name for Sugar Grove, had its beginning in the Spring of 1834 at what is now known as Bliss Woods Forest Preserve. Six men, coming from different areas of the east, met at Black Swamp, Ohio, and decided to journey west…