BGuthrie Photos: IL -- Utica

IL -- Utica:

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1. UTICA_120806_021.JPG: Canal Contractor: Born in England, engineer James Clark arrived in America in 1830 penniless. He found his way from New York to Ohio to Peoria and by 1835 he operated a stage coach line and was purchasing property locally. In 1837 he was contracted to dig two miles of the I&M Canal. Owner of the Utica Hydraulic Cement Co., he built the warehouse in front of you.
2. UTICA_120806_024.JPG: Utica's Foremost Citizen: Clark's influence and contributions to the development of Utica are legendary. He was Utica's first postmaster, first assessor, supervisor, mayor, village president, and State Representative. Also a businessman, he owned a sand business, was a grain purchaser and supplier, and owned Utica's first hotel.
3. UTICA_120806_027.JPG: Canal Warehouse: This stone building was a warehouse on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. It was built by James Clark, a resident of Utica, one year after the canal was completed in 1848. Before the advent of the railroads the canal was the main commercial artery to Chicago. It helped establish Chicago as an important grain market and contributed greatly to the growth of that city and the northern part of the Illinois River Valley. Clark had also constructed five sections of the canal. He operated a general store in his warehouse, which shipped an average of 210,000 bushels of corn and 22,000 bushels of oats per year. It is the only surviving warehouse on canal frontage.
4. UTICA_120806_037.JPG: Aitken School: This one room schoolhouse was originally established as District One in a deed notarized by Horace D. Hickok, brother of "Wild Bill" Hickok on August 3, 1865. It was later referred to as the Aitken School after John Malcolm Aitken, a stalwart friend of the cause of education, and school director from 1885 to 1905. The building was donated to the LaSalle County Historical Society in 1990 and was relocated to its present site the same year. Here it has been restored and furnished by many dedicated friends of one room schoolhouses to be used for educational purposes.
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Wikipedia Description: North Utica, Illinois
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North Utica is a village in Utica Township, LaSalle County, Illinois. The population was 977 at the 2000 United States Census. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area.

While North Utica is the proper name for the city, advertising on nearby Interstates 80 and 39 refers to the village by its original name, Utica. In addition, people who live in the area, official Interstate signage, and signs indicating the city limits all refer to the town as Utica.

History

The town of Utica had previously been established on the banks of the Illinois River during the 1830s, but flooding and the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal a few miles north encouraged redevelopment of the village there as North Utica.
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2012 photos: Equipment this year: My mainstays were the Fuji S100fs, Nikon D7000, and the new Fuji X-S1. I also used an underwater Fuji XP50 and a Nikon D600. The first three cameras all broke this year and had to be repaired. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Shepherdstown, WV, Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA), a week-long family reunion cruise of the Caribbean, another week-long family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with lots of in-transit time in Ohio and Indiana), and my 7th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including side trips to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon, etc). Ego strokes: I had a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. I had a photograph of the George Segal San Francisco Holocaust memorial used as the cover of Quebec Francais (issue 165). Not being able to read French, I'm not entirely sure what the article is about but, hey! And I guess what could be considered to be a positive thing, my site is now established enough that spammers have noticed it and I had to block 17,000 file description postings for Viagra and whatever else.. Number of photos taken this year: just below 410,000.
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