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Wigwam Mound, Bliss Woods: Site of First Settlers of Sugar Grove
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From "Sugar Grove, Illinois 1834 - 1984" by Ruth Frantz and Frank Damon:
"Spring of 1834 - Black Swamp, Ohio, six men happened to make camp together: Asa McDole from Chemung County, New York; brothers James and Isaac Isbell; nephew Parmeno Isbell; James Carmen; and Mr. Bishop, all from Medina, Ohio. Friendships were formed around the campfire when they discovered they all had the same destination.
May 10, 1834 they left Oswego on the Fox River - then just two cabins. With two carts, tow yoke of cattle, four cows, a couple of axes and each man his 'flint lock, they followed Blackberry Creek north. An abandoned Indian sugar camp by the Mounds and creek enticed them to stay in what is now the Bliss Woods area of Sugar Grove.
Taking shelter in a brush wigwam, they set about building the first log cabin. "
"Spring of 1834 - Black Swamp, Ohio, six men happened to make camp together: Asa McDole from Chemung County, New York; brothers James and Isaac Isbell; nephew Parmeno Isbell; James Carmen; and Mr. Bishop, all from Medina, Ohio. Friendships were formed around the campfire when they discovered they all had the same destination.
May 10, 1834 they left Oswego on the Fox River - then just two cabins. With two carts, tow yoke of cattle, four cows, a couple of axes and each man his 'flint lock, they followed Blackberry Creek north. An abandoned Indian sugar camp by the Mounds and creek enticed them to stay in what is now the Bliss Woods area of Sugar Grove.
Taking shelter in a brush wigwam, they set about building the first log cabin. "
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Photographed August 2020
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Ryan M., Kim Ritchie
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