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Title A name given to the resource Police & Fire Departments Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Former Sugar Grove Fire Station, 61 Main St. Description An account of the resource The former Sugar Grove Fire Station on Main St. photographed here was built in 1973. The Fire Department built a new Fire Station on Municipal Dr. and Route 30. The former location on Main St. was converted into an office for the Sugar Grove Park District, Repede Center. 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Title A name given to the resource Ben McCannon, Jr.: "Sugar Grove Boy Honored at College" (Photo with Ben McCannon, Leigh Sauer, and Stanley Snow) Description An account of the resource Newspaper Article and Photo: "Sugar Grove Boy Honored at College" Ben McCannon, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. B.G. McCannon, a graduate of Sugar Grove high school,, has been initiated by the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Iowa State college at Ames, Iowa. During veisha celebration last week, he was one of thirty freshmen who received the "Minute Man" medal, awarded by the national society, Sons of the American Revolution, through Col. J.B. Ladd, donor, to those members of the first year basic course, field artillery and engineers, who have demonstrated the highest qualities of character, good citizenship, and military ability. 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Title A name given to the resource Historic Commercial Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mill owned by John and Anna Trott: Late 1800s Subject The topic of the resource In the background of the photo can be seen the Old West Hotel. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 200-13a (Accession Number) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lisa https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/20c3aba016838305f8a4609824aeaac5.jpg 39b18ef6249119beb362950416a0afdd https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/6c50a5a762cc0b9975cd3a267a3bae03.jpg 08c40fcd2b6c8c7a7c118370f2e00d4c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Uncle Tom's Cabin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Uncle Tom's Cabin: Newspaper Article "Sugar Grove, Village of Culture" Description An account of the resource Newspaper Article Transcription SUGAR GROVE, VILLAGE OF CULTURE The Sugar Grove area was first settled by three Isbell brothers (form Ohio) in 1834, who found an Indian encampment near the grove. A post office was established in 1840, a public library in 1843, and the first school opened in 1848. Stephen A. Paull is credited with founding the village in 1838. The name, Sugar Grove, was taken from the Indians who frequented the area, tapping the many sugar maples. A cheese factory was built in 1866. One of the village's most prominent citizens, Thomas Judd conceived the idea that the area needed a high school to include courses valuable to a farming community. In addition to the usual courses, agricultural chemistry, breeds of cattle and other related subjects would be taught. Frank hall, famous educator and at that time superintendent of West Aurora schools was persuaded to head the proposed school. 1876 saw the Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial High School become a reality. Mr. Judd donated land for the institution. He also erected a large boarding house for out-of-town scholars (pictured above). This building also housed the depot for the Chicago & Iowa R.R. (now part of the C.B.&Q.), express and telegraph offices, a store and post office. Commonly called "Uncle Tom's Cabin," it burned down a few years later. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bliss House Museum Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bliss House Sign with History of House and Museum for "The Fox Runs Through it: Tales and Trails of the Fox River Valley" Description An account of the resource Sign in the front lawn at the Bliss House Museum commemorating the history of the house and the creation of the museum as the third place award winner in the 2000 Illinois Governor's Hometown Awards Program. SIGN READS: P.Y. Bliss House The 1838 Greek Revival Peleg Young Bliss House is an example of post and beam construction, which utilizes large wooden timbers joined together with wooden pegs. While this construction technique was commonly used in homes, churches, barns and covered bridges in the nineteenth century, few examples survive today. This building housed the first mercantile business in Sugar Grove Township and was later a residence and Methodist meeting house. While the P.Y. Bliss House was slated for demolition to accommodate a new housing subdivision in the 1990s, the historically- and architecturally-significant building was relocated to Main Street by the Sugar Grove Historical Society to serve as a museum. The relocation and rehabilitation project was the result of a public-private partnership between the Society and the Sugar Grove Township Board, with additional support from the Kane County Historic Preservation Commission and The Custom Source, a division of St. Paul Financial Development Corporation. In 2000, the project received third place in the Illinois Governor's Hometown Awards Program. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bliss House Museum Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bliss House: "The Fox Runs Through it: Tales and Trails of the Fox River Valley" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lisa Description An account of the resource As part of the "The Fox Runs Through it: Tales and Trails of the Fox River Valley", the history of the Bliss House and the creation of the museum was commemorated as the third place award winner in the 2000 Illinois Governor's Hometown Awards Program. Sign in the front lawn at the Bliss House Museum commemorating the history of the house and the creation of the museum as the third place award winner in the 2000 Illinois Governor's Hometown Awards Program. SIGN READS: P.Y. Bliss House The 1838 Greek Revival Peleg Young Bliss House is an example of post and beam construction, which utilizes large wooden timbers joined together with wooden pegs. While this construction technique was commonly used in homes, churches, barns and covered bridges in the nineteenth century, few examples survive today. This building housed the first mercantile business in Sugar Grove Township and was later a residence and Methodist meeting house. While the P.Y. Bliss House was slated for demolition to accommodate a new housing subdivision in the 1990s, the historically- and architecturally-significant building was relocated to Main Street by the Sugar Grove Historical Society to serve as a museum. The relocation and rehabilitation project was the result of a public-private partnership between the Society and the Sugar Grove Township Board, with additional support from the Kane County Historic Preservation Commission and The Custom Source, a division of St. Paul Financial Development Corporation. In 2000, the project received third place in the Illinois Governor's Hometown Awards Program. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bliss House Museum Text/Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Bliss House Museum History Text Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bliss House Museum Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12-2020 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lisa Description An account of the resource If walls could talk, think of the stories the walls of the Bliss House could tell! The white frame structure with the brick filled walls stands on its new foundation south of the tracks on Main Street in Sugar Grove, filled with records and memoirs of over on hundred and seventy years. The move to Main Street in 1997 was the second move for the structure from its original site at the corner of Bliss Road and Merrill Road. It is recorded that on the 22nd day of November, 1838, the frame for the house was erected for Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss) by a man known as “ Boss “ Read. The following spring, before the house was completed, the Methodists held their quarterly meeting in one of the rooms. On the first day of June, 1839, P.Y. Bliss filled the new building with such merchandise as was in demand by the settlers of the day, and opened the first mercantile establishment tin Sugar Grove township. The trade extended over a territory reaching from Dundee to Yorkville, and from the borders of Kane County on the east to Johnson and Shabbona Groves, DeKalb County, on the west. According to Mr. Bliss, the annual sales exceeded those of any other in the county by thousands of dollars, which was an astounding accomplishment for that day. Mr. Bliss had stated that in 1838, he rode horseback from his cabin in Sugar Grove to the county court house in Geneva, and saw nor a house nor living soul along the way. That simple statement attests to the remoteness of the area at that time, and may have sown the seed for the need of a general mercantile in the township. Most of the citizenry of Sugar Grove Township was originally of New England stock, with their roots in an area known for their strict adherence to record keeping. There were a few individuals who kept journals or at least passed their family lore on to their descendants, but much of the significant history of the township was lost when no one saw the importance of recording events in those early years. In a clipping from an Aurora newspaper of long ago, one sentence stands out from the remainder of an article about Sugar Grove. Although no documentation can be made, the few lines of print add greatly to the history of the Bliss House: “When Abraham Lincoln was riding the circuit as an active member of the Illinois bar, he frequently stopped at the Bliss store when driving between Geneva, county seat of Kane, and Ottawa, county seat of LaSalle.” Abraham Lincoln rode the circuit in the early years of his law career, before he formed a partnership and established himself in Springfield. He may have been “just another circuit rider” at the time he passed through Sugar Grove. He was know to have visited Aurora on more than one occasion, so why not Sugar Grove and the only mercantile store in the area? The P.Y. Bliss store would have been a welcome sight to a rider traveling the dirt trail of the day, hot and dusty in summer and undoubtedly muddy after a rain. The combination home and store was moved across Bliss Road from the prominent corner where it had stood, and P.Y. Bliss’s son Harrison built a larger, grander home on the site. The smaller house sheltered many families during the following century, as it grew shabbier in appearance with each passing decade. In 1997, the second move for the Bliss House was from the Bliss Road – Merrill Road area, south to Main Street within the Village of Sugar Grove. It was discovered at the time the house was jacked from its foundation, that the old building weighed far more than anticipated. It was then it was discovered that the walls were filled with bricks! While bricks act as a poor source of insulation, they did serve as a deterrent to frost build-up between the exterior clapboards and the horsehair plaster on the interior. The newly discovered weight of the bricks cause a beam to crack, but once the house was secured, the move south began. Because of the overpass on Route 47, the structure was forced to take a rather roundabout route to its new location. The house was transported east along Galena to Gordon Lane, south to Prairie, then west on Prairie, and back to Main Street to the newly prepared foundation awaiting the arrival of the 150-year old house. The restored Bliss House now serves as home to the Sugar Grove Historical Society. The rear of the building where the original kitchen addition had once been is used for commercial business. Preservationist Barbara Hollmier oversaw the move and five years of restoration work. The preservation of the Bliss House is important because of its historical significance to the community. The use to which it is now assigned as a repository for artifacts, journals, maps, court records, and genealogical records, is quite fitting with the character of the house.   Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton Subject The topic of the resource Bliss House Museum Sugar Grove Historical Society Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sugar Grove Historical Society Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Text Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Type The nature or genre of the resource Bliss House Museum Text Bliss Family History Bliss House Museum IL Sugar Grove Sugar Grove Historical Society https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/1c9b4751ceb56ae7bf5d1eb308c19b7c.pdf d69f76be503894039e1b6f1fd47e66d4 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/4081af17998a9d8d35598c749074f693.jpg 487e28cc88f218e787d8f99132a54f9e https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/dfa25a87fd352341faffa736b83f2333.jpg 244327842f19d270d2a42f9f08132d17 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/292e8983b86fbb16b05ce22084301643.jpg b4a711100f759e388d794e195921a3dc https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/d3243f7cef4d0b03d60fd15696308b46.jpg ae64e4872902b58f94953afea191b36d https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/71740c0074cf5917a1c6f31b303e1e53.jpg 89ed61acc31d6d2243dce035476e61be https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/465439f6a608fd0a01398e8d9ee77c07.jpg 3e8a7bfb1f31b75cd578ab56bd3cfc97 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/61a334b64dd4aa6f6315fd7624bbf46d.jpg 7a1005fb87f82de3bf188725a3a28fc7 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/862b8acc6a002194c9bc43613431449f.jpg 7005e81305c6f26e7ebe4265faf6feec https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/052bb19b322c23c1889de6b0ebec23ba.jpg c7aaee41e1aaa501407c877f60016e19 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/9eb5894bf1421f4fb990181707b69cd3.jpg 93a15c9c207df05b0205a22cb847e9ac Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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