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Last Berlin Post Office - (unknown) This was the building that housed the last Post Office in Berlin.  It was located in the block northeast of the Berlin Park.  The two people are unknown.

Charles Elliott Farmhouse - (1956) The Charles Elliott farmhouse, home to Bill, Esta, David, Judy, and Paul Brehm.  Miss Leta Elliott was the landlady.  The home stood east of the Berlin Road between Tebbe Road and the Village of Berlin.

James Brown Hitt and George Roche - (c.1950) James Brown Hitt (left) on 'Sugar' and George Roche (barely visible on right) at the West Gate at Grove Park.  The rock fence posts were originally constructed by McKinley for the railroad that was being built but was later abandoned.

Lewis Farm - (c.1955) Paul Lewis is on the combine, Floyd Lewis is in the tractor pulling the wagon, and Paul Lewis, Jr. is looking into the wagon.  The Lewis Farm was located on Farley Road about midway between Rt. 54 and the Old Jacksonville Road, about two miles from each road.  It was in Island Grove Township at the southeast edge of the township.  The house that was there has been torn down.  Only a steel shed and grain bin are still there.

Carl Ringer - Jim Town No Man Band - (unknown)  Carl Ringer is shown here sitting in front of the automated band he devised to automatically run xylophones, cymbals, a triangle, drums, and pipes all from a player piano.  Note all of the air hoses that control the various instruments all emanating from the scroll paper reader mounted inside the piano.  This picture was taken in the west wing of the main building at the Sangamon County Fairgrounds in New Berlin.

 

Wenneborg Coal Mine - (1922-1932) Picture of the Wildwood Mine of the Wenneborg Coal Company of New Berlin, IL.  The mine was a slope mine, located northeast of the Village of Berlin on Wake Road at Spring Creek.  Otto P. Wenneborg, Sr. was the operator.  He created the company to employ four men in the family who were unemployed due to a coal miner's strike.  The coal was mined just for sale to local people through the Wenneborg Coal Yard office in New Berlin.  There are no remnants of the mine left today.