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Photo 39-IWI-27 from 1964

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aa21830
03/22/2025

This farmstead was part of a 300 (or so) acre farm owned by Harry and Dorothy Espenscheid. Not long after this photo, ComEd purchased about 2/3's of this land to build the Cherry Valley substation. In 1968 the Espensheid's donated the south 40 acres to the Rockford Park District, which is now the Espensheid Memorial Forest Preserve.

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