GREAT 1902 Antique Dear Sis Long Handwritten Letter Sephenson County Illinois for Sale

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GREAT 1902 Antique Dear Sis Long Handwritten Letter Sephenson County Illinois For Sale

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GREAT 1902 Antique Dear Sis Long Handwritten Letter Sephenson County Illinois:
$19.99

Wonderful long original handwritten letter of a woman to her sister - Dated July 27, 1902. Contents include:Various Small Talk
Problems with her sewing
Husbands trip to Preach in Newton
Trip to the Orangeville Celebration and Fourth of July Picnic
Heavy Rains and flooding
Took dinner with the Glasser house
The yard is beautiful and flowers are so nice
6 front/back pages on 3 pieces of paper. Any questions just ask. Two options for shipping - $1 for a regular envelope; $4 for first class with some extra padding and tracking. Just be sure to select which service you prefer at checkout. Check other listings for more like items. 24J
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Stephenson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 44,630. Its county seat is Freeport.
Dakota, a quiet little country village in the heart of a rich agricultural area, was once a college town during a 15-year period just before the turn of the century. The small community also had boat and picket-fence manufacturing concerns at one time. Today there are no industries here, but the village does have a private boarding school for boys, the Dakotah School, which is a highly regarded institution drawing boys from throughout the country.Although Dakota never became the important shipping center its ... thought it might, the community does offer a pleasant, restful, .... to its 363 residents. Another advantage is its proximity to Freeport, some nine miles west of the village. Dakota is situated in eastern Stephenson County but north of a small school, called the College of Northern Illinois, was founded in 1882 under the leadership of Rev. Frank C. Wetzel, a local pastor. The school was under the auspices of the English Reformed Church of the area.The college was started during a period when a number of institutions of higher learning were springing up in the Midwest. A liberal arts school, it also offered several commercial courses. In 1897 it was decided to close the college and transform its facilities into a high school. The name of the school was then changed to the Interior Academy of Northern Illinois. The academy was the beginning of what is known today as the Dakotah School.Dakota was also the site of a boat manufacturing plant which produced expensive, well-made boats during the early years of the 20th century. The plant, owned by John Polluck (Pollock), was located on property now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Clare Smith. The factory developed in 1907 from a hobby for Polluck and several other Dakota carpenters. In the winter, when barn building and other carpentry work was slack, the men devoted their time to building boats, Gasoline engines manufactured in Racine, Wis., were frequently used to propel the boats.Many of the vessels were shipped from Dakota to Racine where the engines were installed. Some of the more attractive new boats were taken to the nearby Pecatonica River where they were given test runs. Some of the biggest boats manufactured in the plant was 60 feet long and reportedly is still being used on the Rock River in Rockford. The operation flourished for a short time and then passed out of existence. A similar fate also befell a manufacturing concern started several years before by A.W. Smith and John Brown which produced picket fences.Dakota had its beginning in 1857 when the Railroad, now known as the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, first laid its rails through Stephenson County. Area farmers were responsible for the start of the village which ........ center for farm products from the area.Stanton and S.J. Davis surveyed and platted the village that year. Shortly afterward, permission was granted by the Post Office Department to build a postoffice here. Postal authorities decided to call the town Dakotah after the tall, statuesque Dakota Indians who had formerly roamed Minnesota and other parts of the Midwest. Because there was a Dakota in Wisconsin, local officials attached an \"h\" to the end of Dakota. The spelling remained that way for many years before being changed to its present form.The village grew slowly at first but then, between the years 1860-61 and 1866-73 there occurred the biggest building boom in the towns history. The year 1860 was particularly impressive. Seven dwellings were erected that year as well as three stores. Merchants were W.C. Holsapple, a blacksmith, Daniel Keck, general store owner; and Robert Neil, a cabinetmaker.The Civil War slowed building until 1866 when another building cycle began. The Town was incorporated as a village in 1869 with Peter Yoder being elected the first village president. During these years, the community attained a population of over 200 persons - a total it would never exceed by any great margin in later years.As the years passed, Dakota became more and more of a quiet residential community.