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1972
Kane County, IL
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Old Sleepy Hollow Rd and Miller Rd intersection. This home still sits on Miller Road. House was one of the Parson's homes. This picture is looking North. Sleepy Hollow Rd was moved to the West when a housing development was built around 2006. I grew up on Sleepy Hollow Rd and remember a lot of bad accidents at this intersection over the years. There were no intersection stop signs on either road till the early 80s. The first stop signs were only on Miller Rd. Sleepy Hollow had the right of way.
1972
Kane County, IL
Commented
This was the Parsons farm on Miller Rd. in West Dundee in the 60s-80s. The picture is looking northeast. The main barn burned down in the early 80s. The smaller house near the barn is still there and was heavily added on and updated in the late 80s I believe by the Parsons Family. The Parsons children started developing the land into high-end custom homes on 1-plus-acre lots in the mid-80s. These homes are still in unincorporated West Dundee. They later sold the remanding land to a big-time developer in the early 90s that build high-density homes and incorporated the new homes into Carpentersville. The farm location was at Miller Rd and now Oak Knoll Rd. I grew up nearby in the late 70s-90s.
1964
Kane County, IL
Commented
Picture 18 was the house in front of this farm. 19N401 S. Randall Road. This picture is looking southeast. This farm was active till about 2005 when it was sold to developers. The farm was abandoned for a few years. The barn burned to the ground on the night of June 2, 2012. Alleged arson by two local kids. Seven months earlier at the same property the house burned to the ground. I remember reports about a body found in the house remains and was determined to be a suicide. I tried looking for more info on this but was not able to find anything online. So unable to verify. I grew up nearby on Sleepy Hollow Rd in the 70-90s but I didn't know the farm owner's names. As of June 17, 2023, only the two large silos stand.
1964
Kane County, IL
Commented
This home was demolished on Friday, June 16, 2023, to make way for a new Portillo's to the right of the long driveway and other shopping. The home was abandoned for many years but the yard was always mowed even though the house was boarded up. This picture is looking East and the driveway to the left went back to a large farm. At the time of demolition, Randall Rd after being widened was about 15 feet from the front of the home. The area is now Algonquin.
1964
Kane County, IL
Commented & Pinned
This house and once a farm is on Sleepy Hollow Rd. North of Longmeadow Parkway. Current location Sleepy Hollow and Creeks Crossing Dr. Algonquin. The old driveway is almost Creeks Crossing Dr. Originally in unincorporated West Dundee. The house is still there and lived in as of June 2023. This picture is looking East. Not sure of the names that lived there. In the mid-80s I remember the guy living there taking out my parent's mailbox one night driving home a little buzzed. He found it the next day in the grill of his pickup and brought it back to us. Lol. The Moser farm was just down and across the road. The land was leased and farmed by the Jacob brothers.
1964
Kane County, IL
Commented
This farm is on Randall Rd and IL Rt. 72. Picture is looking North West with IL Rt 72 at the top of the picture. As of June 2023, the farm and all house are still there but has been abandoned for years.
1964
Kane County, IL
Commented
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.
1964
Kane County, IL
Commented
This farm was on Randall Rd and the road you see on the top right side is IL Rt 72. North of IL Rt. 72. This picture is looking East. The house was there in the early 80s and I remember my school bus dropping off a kid there. The house and farm were gone by the mid-80s. I'm not sure what happened to the house but my dad said he thought it burned down.
1964
Kane County, IL
Commented
This farm was on Miller Rd in unincorporated West Dundee. The picture is looking North. The farm was between Sleepy Hollow Rd and Huntley Rd. Today's location is Miller Rd and Dunroven Lakes Rd Carpentersville. I don't remember the names of the owners but I remember the owner yelling at me for riding my ATV on his land in the 80s. The farm was very fancy in the 80s and had a lot of money put into it with white fences and a blacktop driveway. The land was leased to another local farmer for gain production. The owners I knew did not farm the 100 or so acres but had some horses. The farm was demolished in the mid-'90s. Liberty School would be to the left side of this picture.
1964
Kane County, IL
Commented
This farm is still there as of June 2023. All barns still standing and someone still living in the home. The road in front is State Rt 31 and the road on the right side is Miller Rd going up the steep hill. Unincorporated West Dundee.