Dupo Prarie hill is one of 300 pristine sites according to the Nature Conservatory.
Drawing of Falling Springs by J.C. WildOriginally Printed in a book titled ” The Valley of the MIssissippi” Illustrated Published in ST.Louis 1841
Drawing of Falling Springs by J.C. WildOriginally Printed in a book titled ” The Valley of the MIssissippi” Illustrated Published in ST.Louis 1841
Dupo 50th Anniversary
Dupo 50th Anniversary
Dupo 50th Anniversary
The Great Flood of 1943
The Great Flood of 1943
The Great Flood of 1943
The Great Flood of 1943
The Great Flood of 1943
The Great Flood of 1943
David “skeeter” Hamilton second from the left.
Dashner Family
First Dashner Funeral home.
Oil well as it blows.
Advertisement for Dupo State Saving Bank – $25,000.00 Capital.
Dupo Lumber & Hardware owned by the Weinel Family from Columbia. Jake Schellhard was the manager of the hardware store. Oscar Schellhardt was the manager of the lumber yard.
Workers at the Y.M.C.A. (first row left to right) W.K.Melton, Grace scholar Melton, Mr.Comton, A.S. Laird, Ray Gaines, Mr. Reynolds, Harry Scott. (Second row) W. Peale, Ida and Harry Elmore, J.C. Tipton, RayHarper, Dan Snyder, T. Rosenbaum. and J.J. Macedon. April 11, 1915.
Sugare Loaf School 1925
Esther Dyroff 5th from left and Hilda Dyroff 8th from left.
Dr.Barney Marxer and Gene Chaplain
High school students attended school in a frame building before the new brick high school was buily, photo c. 1915-1919. R.K. Purl (in glasses) was the Principal. Miss Lottie Gascho in the back row who taught all subjects in the grade school and history is 11th from the left. Esther Dyroff 3rd from left, James LaTurno is in backrow, 7th fronm left.
Early two-story Public School Building, c. 1915-1917, burned.
First Graduates of Dupo High School Esther Dyroff Barret Class of 1919
First graduates of Dupo High School Hilda Dyroff Dodson Class of 1919
Cahokia-Kaskaskia Trail, Kings Highway (Kingshighway), Front Street and now named Main Street or Old Route 3, (right to left) Railroad Exchange Building (later General Merchandise), Phelps Building, Daabs, and then LaCroix Building.
Zebos Family – contributed by Mary Zebos.
General Merchandise Store and Post Office with people standing in front (left of right) Tillie Breuer, Nola Bieller, Hilda Dyroff, Mrs. L.J. Dyroff, Mabel Fitzsimmons, Mrs. H.L. Smith, Mr.Kysor, Louis J. Dyroff, Albert Nieman, Charles Harrisonville, by the truck, Mr. Kent on the way to work.
Farming the bottom land in East Carondelet-Louis Lotton 1919
Louis Lutton in buggy and Clarence Jorn by the fence -1911
Front St. of Dupo at the Depot and train station looking North.
Gun by Phillip Creamer the famed gun maker.
Phillip Creamer house near quarry. The famed gunmaker, b.c.e. 1775, d.c. 1846, was living in Cahokia, during 1808 and 1809. “Two-story federal style log, half dovetail construction, was built soon after his arrival in Cahokia.”The house was taken down by Lindenwood College and is currently in Defiance at the Daniel Boone Museum awaiting reconstruction. His guns were expensive, because of their quality. Jim Bridges, famous mounatin man and gunsmith, was apprenticed for five years to Creamer. From a pamphlet by Curtis L. Johnson and Victor A. Paul.
Cahokia CourtHouse (Today)
Martin-Boimenue House State Historic Site Prarie DuPont, Illinois.
Restoration of Boismenue House. The oldest house in Illinois was built around 1890 by Pieree Martin. The one sory French Creole house with upright grooved log walls is called “post on sill”.
Church Picnic near Falling Spring First Baptist of Dupo circa 1920’s
Group Portrait near falling spring. 1890
Bluffs above and front of Quarry about 1940 (known as the Lion’s Eye.)
Bluffs above and front of Quarry about 1940 (known as the Lion’s Eye.)
