Farm Days Gone By

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Farm Days Gone By

Here’s a picture of a nice saw, I mean, an ice saw, taken in the late teens or early ’20s…

Farm Days Gone By

We’ve shown you a lot of pictures taken at the Seggebruch Farm in Crete. So here’s one of the whole…

Farm Days Gone By

Here’s a picture courtesy of the Crete Historical Society of corn shredding using the Doescher Outfit in the early 1900s…

Farm Days Gone By

James Johnston of Wilmington shares this photo of Jack Brock, a farm adviser for Northen Illinois, taken around 1940 in…

Farm Days Gone By

Myron and Helen Quackenbush get set to take a spin in the automobile he built, the first one in Crete,…

Farm Days Gone By

Sophie and Walter Seggebruch doin’ some mending in front of the house on the Crete Farm in 1967.

Farm Days Gone By

This is how they used to shuck corn back in the day on the Seggebruch farm in Crete.

Farm Days Gone By

Can you identify this farm? If you can, you spent some time in Germany. Tim Piepenbrink shares this photo taken…

Farm Days Gone By

Peg (Stafford) Furto shares this photo of father, Bill Stafford, Sr., who hauled milk from area dairy farmers to Weber…

Farm Days Gone By

Don Bartelt submitted this photo of 100 local farmers assembled on a cold winter day for this 1935 photo taken…

Farm Days Gone By

A nice shot of Robert Joseph Gougar guarding the corn crib about 1950 or so.

Farm Days Gone By

Here’s a picture of the old Doescher Windmill on Exchange Street in Crete. Thanks to the Crete Area Historical Society…