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An Illustrated History of Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois: Part Two

Adam D. Gibbons

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Description:This book is the second part of the first full-length history of Campton Township ever published. This part covers: Later Arrivals from Sweden (the Ekstrom, Strom, Swanson, Eliason, Johnson, Peterson, Anderson, Dahlstrom, Bergman, Erickson, and Olson families); Schools of Campton Township (the Log Schoolhouse, the Moulding School, the Whitney School, the Stone School, the Gray Willow School, the Old Red Schoolhouse, the Nelson School, the Cornwall School, the Stewart School, the Corron School, Wasco School, and Lily Lake School); Churches in Campton Township (early churches, the Wasco Baptist Church, the Lily Lake Congregational Church, the Country Evangelical Covenant Church, Grace Lutheran Church of Lily Lake, and the Corron Methodist Church); Cemeteries of Campton Township (God's Little Acre, the Norton Mausoleum, the Plane Cemetery, the Whitney Cemetery, the Garfield Cemetery, the New Hampshire Cemetery, St. Gall Cemetery, the Lily Lake Cemetery, the Town Hall Road cemetery, the Hackett/Chaffee Cemetery, the Baldwin Family Cemetery, other abandoned cemeteries, and the Township Cemetery Association). The book also covers the history of Campton Township in the 1870s (including sections on Campton Town Hall, Township Government, 1864-1880, the Jesse Shaw family, the Webb family, the Plane family, the Moody family, and Poor Relief); the 1880s (including local government in that period, the Bolcum family, and the Corron workman's house); the Village of Wasco (including the Pattee family, the Rice family, naming Wasco, the Austin family, the Higgins family, the Solomon Johnson family, the Alex Johnson family, the Millen family, and Wasco Ladies Aid); also a chapter on some Wasco businesses (including the Bergland store and lumberyard, Mather's garage and store, Wasco Nursery, Erickson's blacksmith shop, The Farm, the Wasco Inn, the Travis garage, and the Little House Coffee Shop); and a chapter on non-Swedish immigrants of the 19th and early 20th century (including the bell, Rasmussen, Bolwahnn, Weisel, Oleson, Yurs, Deckert, Cook, Hogan, Thomas Thompson, Parsons, Verhaeghe, Burnell, Harrison, Mather, and Sorensen families). There is also a chapter on the village of Lily Lake (including the Lily Lake Community Fair, Lily Lake after 1950, the Winterhalter family, the Reed family, and the Karl Abrahamson family); a chapter on the 1890s (including local government affairs, the Warren family, the Ormond family, new roads in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - Old LaFox, Swanberg, Denker, the realignment of Beith Road, Anderson Road, the Town Hall Road extension proposal, the Lincoln Highway and infrastructure improvements, and part of Route 47); and a chapter on the decades of the 1900s and 1910s (including political and social affairs of that era, voting in 1903, a note on lawsuits, deaths in 1902/03, the Brown family, local affairs after 1904, local farm names, the World War I years, fumigation, the influenza epidemic, the Thistle Commissioner, chattel mortgages, the George Brown and Waterhouse families, and postwar events). Part Two also includes a chapter on Campton Township during the 1920s and '30s (including information on local political change, financial trouble, 1920s construction, a 1930 jury list, baseball, the Great Depression, the pauper fund, severe weather, the Garfield reunion, Campton's Centennial, and on Campton's losing its original shape); and on the 1940s and '50s (including the war years, 1940s roads, the first subdivision [King's Mill], other 1950s housing developments, the early 1950s, taxes and street lights, recreation, the American Legion Post 1195 & Legion Hall, and further 1950s events); and a chapter on the 1960s and '70s (including changing assessments, the mid- and late-1960s, the Windings of Ferson Creek, the early 1970s, Campton Forest Preserve, Garfield Farm, the Bicentennial, and King's Mill); Chapters on the 1980s and '90s; the 2000s and the 201We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Illustrated History of Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois: Part Two. To get started finding An Illustrated History of Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois: Part Two, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book is the second part of the first full-length history of Campton Township ever published. This part covers: Later Arrivals from Sweden (the Ekstrom, Strom, Swanson, Eliason, Johnson, Peterson, Anderson, Dahlstrom, Bergman, Erickson, and Olson families); Schools of Campton Township (the Log Schoolhouse, the Moulding School, the Whitney School, the Stone School, the Gray Willow School, the Old Red Schoolhouse, the Nelson School, the Cornwall School, the Stewart School, the Corron School, Wasco School, and Lily Lake School); Churches in Campton Township (early churches, the Wasco Baptist Church, the Lily Lake Congregational Church, the Country Evangelical Covenant Church, Grace Lutheran Church of Lily Lake, and the Corron Methodist Church); Cemeteries of Campton Township (God's Little Acre, the Norton Mausoleum, the Plane Cemetery, the Whitney Cemetery, the Garfield Cemetery, the New Hampshire Cemetery, St. Gall Cemetery, the Lily Lake Cemetery, the Town Hall Road cemetery, the Hackett/Chaffee Cemetery, the Baldwin Family Cemetery, other abandoned cemeteries, and the Township Cemetery Association). The book also covers the history of Campton Township in the 1870s (including sections on Campton Town Hall, Township Government, 1864-1880, the Jesse Shaw family, the Webb family, the Plane family, the Moody family, and Poor Relief); the 1880s (including local government in that period, the Bolcum family, and the Corron workman's house); the Village of Wasco (including the Pattee family, the Rice family, naming Wasco, the Austin family, the Higgins family, the Solomon Johnson family, the Alex Johnson family, the Millen family, and Wasco Ladies Aid); also a chapter on some Wasco businesses (including the Bergland store and lumberyard, Mather's garage and store, Wasco Nursery, Erickson's blacksmith shop, The Farm, the Wasco Inn, the Travis garage, and the Little House Coffee Shop); and a chapter on non-Swedish immigrants of the 19th and early 20th century (including the bell, Rasmussen, Bolwahnn, Weisel, Oleson, Yurs, Deckert, Cook, Hogan, Thomas Thompson, Parsons, Verhaeghe, Burnell, Harrison, Mather, and Sorensen families). There is also a chapter on the village of Lily Lake (including the Lily Lake Community Fair, Lily Lake after 1950, the Winterhalter family, the Reed family, and the Karl Abrahamson family); a chapter on the 1890s (including local government affairs, the Warren family, the Ormond family, new roads in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - Old LaFox, Swanberg, Denker, the realignment of Beith Road, Anderson Road, the Town Hall Road extension proposal, the Lincoln Highway and infrastructure improvements, and part of Route 47); and a chapter on the decades of the 1900s and 1910s (including political and social affairs of that era, voting in 1903, a note on lawsuits, deaths in 1902/03, the Brown family, local affairs after 1904, local farm names, the World War I years, fumigation, the influenza epidemic, the Thistle Commissioner, chattel mortgages, the George Brown and Waterhouse families, and postwar events). Part Two also includes a chapter on Campton Township during the 1920s and '30s (including information on local political change, financial trouble, 1920s construction, a 1930 jury list, baseball, the Great Depression, the pauper fund, severe weather, the Garfield reunion, Campton's Centennial, and on Campton's losing its original shape); and on the 1940s and '50s (including the war years, 1940s roads, the first subdivision [King's Mill], other 1950s housing developments, the early 1950s, taxes and street lights, recreation, the American Legion Post 1195 & Legion Hall, and further 1950s events); and a chapter on the 1960s and '70s (including changing assessments, the mid- and late-1960s, the Windings of Ferson Creek, the early 1970s, Campton Forest Preserve, Garfield Farm, the Bicentennial, and King's Mill); Chapters on the 1980s and '90s; the 2000s and the 201We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Illustrated History of Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois: Part Two. To get started finding An Illustrated History of Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois: Part Two, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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