Farmers Weekly Review

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

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,…

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

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…

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

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…

Here’s a nice aerial shot of the Fred and Sophie Barten Farm in Manhattan. Thanks to Debbi Barten-South for submitting.

Brothers Rodney and Ron Bettenhausen (ages 6 and 4) standing in a wagon load of corn while their father, Rodger Bettenhausen, stands near the 1939…

In 1951, the Eugene and MaryKay Gallagher family were voted Typical Farm Family of Illinois. They lived in Manhattan Township, where they farmed 440 acres…

Here’s an oldie. The following are the persons appearing in this photo in front of the Smith District School, May 30, 1894. The school was…