Vintage Aerial

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34-BIR-35
1965
68
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Meier Service Station
6-NIR-32
1981
18
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After 4,500 geotags (and counting), this property sets a record for longest sidewalk. Google Maps indicates...
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10-NIR-16
1981
26
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Farmers State Bank of Danforth. Established in 1915. Acquired by First Trust Bank of Illinois in December 2019...
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30-BIR-33
1965
19
1
Whenever I see a farmstead like this one, I think of those lyrics from John Mellencamp's "Little Pink...
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46-BIR-22
1965
30
1
Interstate 57 now cuts through this property, approximately at the two small trees in the top-center of the...
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34-NIR-29
1981
33
1
This farm is undergoing a drainage project, as seen by the trenching machine in the right-center of the photo...
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46-BIR-7
1965
39
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Stemke House, now site of the Gilman Danforth public library.
47-BIR-27
1965
19
1
In December 1969, a 13-mile section of Interstate 57 would open between Onarga and Ashkum, running just to the...
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11-NIR-13
1981
13
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Stemke House, now site of the Gilman Danforth public library. http://old.library.eiu.edu/artarch/displayDetailArt...
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46-BIR-9
1965
68
1
Gilman High School (Gilman, Illinois)
47-BIR-29
1965
32
1
Immaculate Conception Church
36-BIR-1
1976
22
1
Allan Pinkerton house in the foreground. This historic home was later moved 1/2 mile south, as a nursery company...
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48-BIR-16
1965
25
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Follow-up note: the house is tagged on the map in its original location, as shown in the photo above. The house...
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16-JIR-18
1971
17
1
Parker School, located at the northeast corner of Section 11 in Douglas Township. The building was moved into...
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48-BIR-16
1965
25
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The historic Allan Pinkerton house, on a property called "The Larches". An excerpt from John Drury...
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22-KWB-30
1989
10
1
The former Pecatonica Airport.
32-LWI-31
1973
108
1
The old Pecatonica Airport.
21-BIR-25
1965
72
1
Mile marker 298.5 on Interstate 57, under construction in the background.
6-BBE-11
1966
36
3
This was actually in Iroquois County, just across the road from the Wetli residence (photo 13). In the 1950s...
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84-BIR-14
1976
10
1
Dale Wetli residence - this is actually Benton County, Indiana.
59-BIR-2
1965
23
1
This was the 160-acre Thiesen farm. My dad and uncle rented this farm in the late-80s and early-90s. The only...
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69-BIR-24
1965
23
1
Owned by the Hislop family, this farmstead became part of Kellart Lake (under construction in the background...
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93-BIR-30
1965
26
1
House and buildings gone, but those driveways...hard to conceal them. This one was still visible in the satellite...
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85-BIR-5
1965
49
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Burns Implement
106-BIR-4
1965
85
1
In the 1950s this was the Shade-Ion Farm hatchery.
15-MIR-25
1980
24
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Kaufman Grain on IL-49, near Woodworth.
5-KIR-22
1989
17
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WGFA radio station
120-NIR-30
1981
33
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The bank that became a church.
120-NIR-29
1981
22
1
Hicks Gas. In the '80s, my cousin from Southern California would come out every summer. He thought we were...
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121-NIR-2
1981
92
2
Bowling alley, bar, skating rink...in the '80s and '90s, this place had it all. Both of my sisters had...
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