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Cooper Memorial College
This piano card entitled Lillie Green to nine piano lessons for fifty cents a lesson from the musical director of Cooper Memorial College (today…
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Veterans
This is a picture which has been kicking around town for more than 100 years. This much is known: the men are Civil War veterans, members of Mead Post…
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Farming
[Written on label] Plow factory at corner of Broadway and West Monroe. Shed behind plows is Henry Sterman's hardware. Moved here from Atlanta in 1876.
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Farming
This photograph most likely features the Keystone Mill and Elevator, built by the town's first merchants, Landis and Hollinger, for flour milling.
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Businesses
One of Sterling first industries was flour milling. This is the International Roller Mill but in the 1880's. It burned to the ground around the turn…
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Congregational churches
The vacant lot at the corner of Fifth and Monroe was the once the location of the Congregational Church, built in 1874, and was the first church…
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Businesses
Picture of the Chamber of Commerce of Sterling in 1925.
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Sterling Cemetery
The Sterling Cemetery early in its development, with Cooper Memorial College (today called Sterling College) in the background.