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Some history, newspaper clippings, postcards, and photographs of Sugar Grove - as yet a work-in-progress.
Main Street, Sugar Grove
Postcard image courtesy of Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pa.
Addressed to Mr. J. Leigh Smith, #12 Water St. Warren, Pa.
Postmarked September, but the year is unreadable.
Postcard message on the back:
"Dear Leigh = It is cold enough here to snow got started to go to see the moving pictures but changed my mind am in the Post office, to mail this card then I am going home.
Am going to Youngsville Sat. to see Bill [cannot read the name] to have two teeth filled.
If you are coming up Sat. eve. will wait for the train let me know.
Yours with love. Alice"
Sugar Grove Hotel
Postcard image courtesy of Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pa.
Note the appearance of telephone/electric lines and poles.
Below are three postcards of the school in Sugar Grove.
Postcard with a view of the High School and West Main Street
Postcard image courtesy of Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pa.
Undated
Postmarked 1908, this card was addressed to
Miss Harriete (?) Cushman, 132 Warren St., Jamestown, N.Y.
but contained no message on the back.
Postcard image courtesy of Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pa.
In the lower right corner: Yagear Photo
Titled "Union School, Sugar, [sic] Grove, Pa."
Postcard image courtesy of Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pa.
Undated
Postcard of the Sugar Grove Seminary
Postcard image courtesy of Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pa.
Handwritten date on the front: August 28, 1906
Erected in 1883 through the efforts of the Erie Conference of the United Brethren of Christ.
The school was opened in September, 1884, with an attendance of about 130.
Sugar Grove Concert Band
Undated postcard with band members names handwritten on the back.
Postcard image courtesy of Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pa.
Back row: W. Jamieson, __ Lundberg, __ Johnson, Will Dalrymph, Emil Scott, Lloyd Hamilton, Albert Scott, Ernest Thorpe, Howard Rathburn, Jim Miller
Front row: Chan (?) Davis, Brice (?) Shutts, Will Thorpe, Gene Abbott, Harland Abbott, Gard Thorpe, Geo. Mathers
One person in the front row is unnamed, perhaps the lad leaning on the drum...?
Y. & S.G. Train, Sugar Grove
Postcard image courtesy of Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pa.
Printed by hand on the back: "Picture taken in 1908 or 1909"
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