Photo 16-IKA-27

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I knew this as the Jacobs farm '60s-'80s on Sleepy Hollow Rd in unincorporated West Dundee. Now Algonquin. The current location is Sleepy Hollow Rd and Wynnfield Dr. The picture is looking West. Westfield School which is on what was the Moser farm will be on the left side of this picture. The Jacob brothers farmed all the land on the North end of Sleepy Hollow Rd to County Line Rd. What I was told they grew up on the farm. The farm was sold to a doctor and leased back to the brothers in the 70s' Doc Willoughby as the locals knew him and after which the neighborhood is now named after. Doc Willoughby built a new house just down the road from the farm which is still there. Across from the Westfield school. In this picture you see dairy cows but when I knew the farm they had only beef cows. Around 2 dozen or so. The Jacob brothers ran Oliver Tractors and farmed around 1000 acres. They moved out in the mid-'80s. The farmhouse was rented to a few others for a few years till the land was sold to Kimball Hill Home developers in the early 90s. The farmhouse was very fancy for the times being built with a brick and rock front porch. The farm was abandoned for a few years. The farm was demolished in the spring of 1995.

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