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Title A name given to the resource Main Street Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 9th, 1997 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/c282722145468a0d30e99093e5d35d8c.jpg 82bd0fbaed86408e8aa7a5a514e32f17 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/d74c065cbf67c078a6229e9fa4720a02.jpg 2b58c6dde48f405bf65e22b694428369 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 Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove 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 Main Street House Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 9th, 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/199609bc064954b97ede2d456b69104d.jpg 73973dc5699883d9ab50eaf6d13c1370 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/428a8c053691bb9016aa6a8a9ea52f73.jpg 90a8f23df291fe9ca80c60199169bfb2 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 Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove 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 Main Street House Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 5th, 1995 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/ec9b7743c772f42c026a2005902394a3.jpg d6371a91d4582b8be07b82eb8fbffe8b 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 People Photo Collection 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 Peleg Young Bliss and Daughter Janette: 1852 or 1853 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna H. Description An account of the resource Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss) Peleg Young Bliss was one of the earliest settlers and businessmen in Sugar Grove. He was born in 1806 in Vermont and passed away in Sugar Grove in 1888 at the age of 82. As a young boy growing up at the age of nine, he was indentured to a man in Moretown, Vermont. After an unfortunate experience, he ran away and found himself in Strafford, Vermont. The Honorable Judge Jedediah H. Harris took him under his wing, cared for him as a foster father, and helped him learn to be a prosperous businessman. P. Y. Bliss became a good writer and authored a policy adopted by the United States government that would grant lands to settlers who planted trees for timber. (Source: “A Genuine Vermonter”, Vermont Watchman and State Journal, Montpelier, Vermont, Volume 74-3805, No. 49, September 17, 1879.) In 1837, P.Y. Bliss settled in Sugar Grove. “On the 22d day of November, 1838, a man popularly known as "Boss" Read, who still lives in Blackberry, erected for P. Y. Bliss a frame house, which is still occupied by its original owner, on its original site. In the Spring of 1839, the Methodists held their quarterly meeting in one of its rooms, before it was quite completed; but religious exercises had been introduced into the township some time previous, the first sermon having been delivered by the devout and conscientious 'Father' Clarke." (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 415.) Mr. Bliss stated that, “in riding from his residence, in the following year [1838], direct to Geneva, he passed not a house, furrow nor fence of any kind, and that the old Court House at the county seat was the first building which appeared to his view.” (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 413.) “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.” (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) “On the 1st of June, 1839, Mr. Bliss filled the new building with such goods as are demanded by the country trade, and opened the first mercantile establishment in the township. Its trade extended over a territory reaching from Dundee to Yorkville, and from the borders of Kane County on the east to Johnson's and Shabbona Groves, DeKalb County, on the west. No other store in Kane County ever drew such a wide range of custom, and, according to Mr. Bliss, the annual sales exceeded those of any other in the county by thousands of dollars.” (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 415.) “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.’” (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) In 1842, P.Y. Bliss married Helen Louis Mather, and they had two children: Janette Bliss (1844 – 1887) and Jedediah Harris Bliss (1849 – 1929), named after the Honorable Jedediah H. Harris who helped P.Y. Bliss as a young boy. In 1843, P.Y. Bliss was one of the signers of the Constitution for the Sugar Grove Farmers Institute. (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 80.) In 1845, P.Y. Bliss was appointed by the Illinois General Assembly as a commissioner to locate a State road crossing the Fox River, and the designed meeting place was Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove. The State road today is known as Illinois Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties.  According the “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” the Act stated: “In force, January 21, 1845. An Act to locate a State road from Little Rock in Kane County, to the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County.  “Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, that Peleg Y. Bliss of Kane County, Hiram E. Leonard and Edward Eldridge of DuPage County, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, survey, mark and locate a State road from Little Rock, Kane County, crossing Fox River near Snider’s mill in said county, and terminate at the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County. “Section 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove, Kane County, on the first Monday in April or within four months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge their duties according to the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, mark, survey and locate said road on the nearest and most eligible ground from point to point, having due regard to private property and public convenience, and shall make return to the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which the same shall pass, which return shall be entered of record and filed in the office of the county commissioners’ courts, and said road shall be a public and State road and kept in repair as other State roads are. “Section 3. The said commissioners, surveyor and assistants shall receive such compensation for their services as the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road shall pass, shall deem right and proper. Approved, January 21, 1845.” “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” at pages 218-219. As noted above, the State road that P.Y. Bliss helped to survey and locate is now known as Illinois State Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties. Mr. Bliss’s house and store was later relocated from its corner on Bliss Road and Merrill Road to Main Street in Sugar Grove in 1997 to become the Bliss House Museum and home of the Sugar Grove Historical Society. Subject The topic of the resource Bliss Family Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1852-53 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 Photo Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/89ba24b0663a2d1157508b0655fb3947.jpg b9986487d71b8214bbd57efab6e61b2e https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/cdae6a1e007b8cc200b2135db737a0d5.jpg 7f644b1a9e9c9bf28bf70d5e3bfce68a 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 Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove 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 Main Street House Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 29th, 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/efef88e33af8abf99ee3c45bd7c2f6e3.jpg e63fd1a4668fbb9433146649df2914b4 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/f2e1de9d4c6ceef239682b2455d89029.jpg 8ed74cc3f7f0b5fd5977753c4ac30645 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 Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove Photo Collection 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 Will Johnson 263 Main Street Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 3rd, 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Subject The topic of the resource Johnson Family Description An account of the resource William Johnson home, Mains Street, Sugar Grove, IL 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 Photo Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/d34bd249b882149571cffe5adf57a09f.jpg 27afa36742f02a1252df45d9c738290e https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/7cb623b10a45c5b3b203a9056962fe9b.jpg c103a005c724ab93ffbdc582f302dff3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Main Street Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 30, 1995 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/30b5962e057b3c42dec655ff4ac7fd88.jpg 4e75f01f67119d3a0b0561dbadf951ca https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/2971d09511164f964f8f5d5cd4997ef7.jpg b315f613ddeb03e0ec0ec383531f653d https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/cb40965eb55b4707ec44fbc784114708.jpg 27afa36742f02a1252df45d9c738290e 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 Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove Photo Collection 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 Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL, 1993 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 29, 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Subject The topic of the resource Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL Home Description An account of the resource Located next to the William A. Johnson House at 263 Main Street. Current site of the Bliss House Museum-Sugar Grove Historical Society. Bergfeld Family Home (last occupants). Lenny, Sue, Linda, Richard and Boyce Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Bergfeld Family Home (last occupants). Lenny, Sue, Linda, Richard and Boyce Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bergfeld Family Home (last occupants). Lenny, Sue, Linda, Richard and Boyce Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo Collection 1993 IL Main Street Sugar Grove https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/926857407b8a6585da7037503c3d172b.jpg 511f749af108bace94956ee82557b989 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/e66b55c812d8034d741d487c88bcc4c1.jpg 83c7be7db856ceeb6e73f3dfaba3541d https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/235ec9985628099c8acb7ca2e6bb1ef8.jpg ac0c8d2a5eb51b181a4f88cd238c3981 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 People Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Oil Painting at 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 Peleg Young Bliss, Oil Painting Portrait in Bliss House Museum Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna H. Description An account of the resource Oil Painting Portrait hanging in Bliss House Museum Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss) Peleg Young Bliss was one of the earliest settlers and businessmen in Sugar Grove. He was born in 1806 in Vermont and passed away in Sugar Grove in 1888 at the age of 82. As a young boy growing up at the age of nine, he was indentured to a man in Moretown, Vermont. After an unfortunate experience, he ran away and found himself in Strafford, Vermont. The Honorable Judge Jedediah H. Harris took him under his wing, cared for him as a foster father, and helped him learn to be a prosperous businessman. P. Y. Bliss became a good writer and authored a policy adopted by the United States government that would grant lands to settlers who planted trees for timber. (Source: “A Genuine Vermonter”, Vermont Watchman and State Journal, Montpelier, Vermont, Volume 74-3805, No. 49, September 17, 1879.) In 1837, P.Y. Bliss settled in Sugar Grove. “On the 22d day of November, 1838, a man popularly known as "Boss" Read, who still lives in Blackberry, erected for P. Y. Bliss a frame house, which is still occupied by its original owner, on its original site. In the Spring of 1839, the Methodists held their quarterly meeting in one of its rooms, before it was quite completed; but religious exercises had been introduced into the township some time previous, the first sermon having been delivered by the devout and conscientious 'Father' Clarke." (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 415.) Mr. Bliss stated that, “in riding from his residence, in the following year [1838], direct to Geneva, he passed not a house, furrow nor fence of any kind, and that the old Court House at the county seat was the first building which appeared to his view.” (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 413.) “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.” (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) “On the 1st of June, 1839, Mr. Bliss filled the new building with such goods as are demanded by the country trade, and opened the first mercantile establishment in the township. Its trade extended over a territory reaching from Dundee to Yorkville, and from the borders of Kane County on the east to Johnson's and Shabbona Groves, DeKalb County, on the west. No other store in Kane County ever drew such a wide range of custom, and, according to Mr. Bliss, the annual sales exceeded those of any other in the county by thousands of dollars.” (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 415.) “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.’” (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) In 1842, P.Y. Bliss married Helen Louis Mather, and they had two children: Janette Bliss (1844 – 1887) and Jedediah Harris Bliss (1849 – 1929), named after the Honorable Jedediah H. Harris who helped P.Y. Bliss as a young boy. In 1843, P.Y. Bliss was one of the signers of the Constitution for the Sugar Grove Farmers Institute. (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 80.) In 1845, P.Y. Bliss was appointed by the Illinois General Assembly as a commissioner to locate a State road crossing the Fox River, and the designed meeting place was Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove. The State road today is known as Illinois Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties.  According the “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” the Act stated: “In force, January 21, 1845. An Act to locate a State road from Little Rock in Kane County, to the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County.  “Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, that Peleg Y. Bliss of Kane County, Hiram E. Leonard and Edward Eldridge of DuPage County, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, survey, mark and locate a State road from Little Rock, Kane County, crossing Fox River near Snider’s mill in said county, and terminate at the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County. “Section 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove, Kane County, on the first Monday in April or within four months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge their duties according to the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, mark, survey and locate said road on the nearest and most eligible ground from point to point, having due regard to private property and public convenience, and shall make return to the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which the same shall pass, which return shall be entered of record and filed in the office of the county commissioners’ courts, and said road shall be a public and State road and kept in repair as other State roads are. “Section 3. The said commissioners, surveyor and assistants shall receive such compensation for their services as the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road shall pass, shall deem right and proper. Approved, January 21, 1845.” “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” at pages 218-219. As noted above, the State road that P.Y. Bliss helped to survey and locate is now known as Illinois State Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties. Mr. Bliss’s house and store was later relocated from its corner on Bliss Road and Merrill Road to Main Street in Sugar Grove in 1997 to become the Bliss House Museum and home of the Sugar Grove Historical Society. 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Title A name given to the resource Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove 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 Main Street House Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 26th, 1997 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/3c918500d78f9747227db8c4eb792d55.jpg 5d0dbe6817c938ae22fd37d980e03dc5 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 Will A Johnson residence ca.1994 Subject The topic of the resource Johnson Family/Homes Description An account of the resource Home constructed in 1906 for Lydia Finley, who never lived in the house. It was initially the residence of farm employees of the Finley farm. It was purchased about 1912 by Will A (Sr) and Nelle (nee Lye) Johnson. 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Title A name given to the resource Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove 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 Main Street House Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 30th, 1997 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/76a2d027ea7feb7741a1e903fe8732b0.jpg e0811f084b0c1ad9252bb859b95ae24f https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/423001a6547bc16ea11092027e26f857.jpg 8f8e505c489204c0001c725d7e8edbdd 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 Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove 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 Main Street Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 26th, 1997 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/30a5f7803d7f985d8840c4ec0d32fb74.jpg 58f5559d06f5d0f024e01d63678ce196 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/41a07045ae71b235fefe7137102f0371.jpg f516f3710461cab5624f286fd6e709bd https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/1637275c937dc14496181ea4f91cefdd.jpg 3bb51f6b2811bdf97375a96d6e7dc83f https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/108dfdedf92abf83f3c3d9d0c52eb265.jpg d03929f79b57a962d46795e06a275e4b https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/fa6510aae1a2e1cde3b7ad78c2825efd.jpg 2bb89de97c368e36fee48a7102115dfa https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/ae96c582ddef041883d9bb1c54476cbd.jpg 40984e4083e18c50268fe38e8adf9710 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/a0f78bb5903458091bff45c0f3ee5a84.jpg b6c22e1bd6037e04cbce5ab6980d1cce https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/2e83cd804b80f4d9be4f93657c67bf05.jpg 208a7442cacb7f10bdaad6dfe8482c31 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/a6dc91d4d0a30a25d08a87b4bea4fa58.jpg a23ed40676ba0a0de057932f527526c7 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 Historic Commercial Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Year Book Photos, 1921 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 Will A. Johnson: Livery Feed and Sale Stable; Lumber, Coal and Farm Machinery Building, 253 Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Subject The topic of the resource Johnson Family Description An account of the resource The location at 253 Main Street is now Skow Trucking.The building also provided storefronts for McCormick Harvesting Machines and Studebaker Buggies. The gentleman standing outside is Will A. Johnson, Sr., the owner of Spotted Mules. Will A. Johnson Sr., Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of Appaloosa Mules. He owned a six mule hitch owned, which was said to be the only six Appaloosa Mule hitch in the world at that time. First advertisement reads, "Will A. Johnson. Agricultural Implements, Automobiles and Automobile Repairing, Auto and Horse Livery, Real Estate, Live Stock of All Kinds Bought and Sold." Second advertisement reads, "Will A. Johnson & Sons Company. Breeders and Dealers in Registered Hampshire Swine. Most Popular Blood Lines. Breeding Stock any age for sale at all times." Advertisements cropped from "The Ember 1921", Yearbook of Sugar Grove Township High School. Available under the "School Yearbooks" Collection. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1921 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 Photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo, Year Book 1921 1921 IL Main Street Sugar Grove https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/270543c90d3f0760c7a788bc7c640172.jpg 53850af928820d20878e6170f6789a45 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/3d046e032e3a58a3a3c945636dd3dca4.jpg acdd2b122a68d3bf1f23bcd9797bb16e https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/fb66ccf4213f66e084f46c84738635df.jpg c532f73d5fd2bb1295c903e91754456a https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/9be7830eb7d4163d1a20cda231e2b634.jpg 4c29a9c81bf36357a28df70637b64b51 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/bc51d7c8be81c6303706519ead8e5641.jpg 217d8426c043e16d9f879feab9bb8f03 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 Schools 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 Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, 1875-1905 Description An account of the resource Frank H. Hall, Principal Mrs. Nellie Smith, Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music M. E. Petty, Assistant H. L. Norton, Assistant School Burned Down in Jan. 1905 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 ideas. Thus it was that Thomas Judd, Henry Chapman, Silas Reynolds, Leonard Benjamin, and Lewis Gillette went to Mr. Hall and asked him to take charge of the new school if it could be built. An all day picnic was held in the maple grove on the Judd Farm on Tuesday May 28, 1875, with the announced purpose of discussing plans for the new school. History records that 1,000 people attended and all were seated at a table of 168 feet long, and enjoyed a find meal. The dinner was followed by a program and speakers. One of the speakers was Professor Hall, and at the close of his speech, he called for donations. It took just 15 minutes to collect $1,400.00, plus subscriptions that brought that total to $2,200.00. Subsequent subscriptions and the district tax, swelled the fund to $4,500.00. Mr. Judd donated the land where the apartment house now stands across from the Methodist Church. The school and a horse shed to accommodate 80 horses was build and the Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School opened for classes in the fall of 1875. The average attendance for the first year was 100, of which about 25 were local students. The curriculum at that time included Latin, General History, natural Philosophy, Grammar, Elements of Agricultural Science, Geometry, Bookkeeping, Arithmetic, English Literature and Music. A teaching certificate was one requirement of being awarded a Certificate of Graduation. The original industrial school burned to the ground in January 1905. A brick veneer building was constructed in its place in 1906. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Caleb H. People School https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/ca3a9e60a276c8cecc2c3a9b9e43f855.jpg 5395b4858feb80a38c9e574b1a1797f4 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 Johnson Family Business Subject The topic of the resource Johnson Family, Historic Commercial Description An account of the resource Will A Johnson and Son barn SE corner or Main and First Streets ca. 1940's. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940's Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource WA Johnson Family 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 Photo Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo Collection https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/4255f08a0ad14b0da910811940a43194.jpg 42b74b4f024991fd13e8949194bab846 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 Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo 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 Will Johnson Barn, 1930 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Late 1930's Subject The topic of the resource Johnson Family Description An account of the resource Barn 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 Photo Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Johnson Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo Collection 1930s IL Johnson Barn Main Street Sugar Grove https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/b41e9b8c43a1d5b749243a7624c4e593.jpg 739eebab61414153be32ab591d8295f7 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/ecebd55e19182456bdf071bba1d46ab4.jpg fa72559b10f57da92975f7153120440b 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 Streetscapes Subject The topic of the resource Streetscapes of Sugar Grove 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 263 Main Street Photo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kaitlin Main Street https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/39233a4ce7184b5cf7d87fe8508dddc0.jpg dedaff4d0fe3a8d21d9e4bbc2db1cdac 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 People 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 Junior Booth - June 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna H.