Information for this website came form a variety of sources including the following:
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck, editor, Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Alft, E.C., Hanover Township: Rural Past to Urban Present, Bartlett Historical Society, Elgin Area Historical Society, and Streamwood Historical Society, 1980.
Gher, Nancy and Jennifer Leo, Hanover Harvesters: A Pictorial History of Hanover Township, 1850-1955, Charleston: Arcadia Press, 1999.
Gulliford, Andrew, America's Country Schools, Boston: Preservation Press, 1984.
Unpublished Sources
Jahn, Elsie, Autobiography, circa 1985, from the collection of Streamwood Historical Society. Oral Histories collected by museum staff from Ruth Regenberg Andersen (1993), Elmer Hecht (2002), Art Heine (1996 and 2002).
125th Anniversary 1852-1977, Immanuel United Church of Christ, booklet published by the church in 1977.
The staff of Hoosier Grove Museum extends a special thanks to Mike Alft for permission to use information from his writings. Also, we thank Art and Della Heine, the Hecht Family, Florence Dieckoff, Barb Lawrence, Walter Krog and Ruth Andersen for sharing photos used on the website.
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