Farm Days Gone By

April 10, 2025 /

Posing in front of this spiffy car in 1947 are Arlene, Clarence, Roy and Jeanette Sangmeister, with Alfred Oehlerking.

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Farm Days Gone By

April 3, 2025 /

Dick Attaway shares this photo of his grandfather, Fred Attaway, on the left with an unknown associate on what he believes was his Model T…

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Farm Days Gone By

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In June 1929, the entire class of a one-room schoolhouse gets ready to promote milk as good for health. The children sewed their own milkmaid…

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Lynn Wehrmann​ of Peotone shares this photo from around 1906. The home being moved was owned by his great- grandparents, John and Caroline Andres. The…

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Ed Nelson, president of the Peotone Historical Society, shares this photo of the 1917 graduating class of Peotone High School.

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Dick Attaway sent along this photo from around 1916 taken at their farm on old Route 66 near where it crosses Jackson Creek: From left,…

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From June 1929 — Total Enrollment of one room school. Promoting value of milk for good health. The children sewed their own milkmaid costumes at…

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Margaret Kennedy Benoit shares this photo of all the bright, shiny faces at Bell School in Wilmington, where she and her brother, Robert Kennedy, attended…

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The Brandau family shares this photo of Clarence Sangmeister holding Jeanette (Sangmeister) Brandau on their Uncle Erwin’s Farmall Picker. Good times.

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Andy Partak shares this photo of the Barr family on their farm on Arsenal Road. The house was built in 1907 or 1908, and the…

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