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Flickr Galleries with Historic Berwyn Images
Do you have images of Berwyn’s history online you’d like to share. Send us your link and we may post them to this post for everyone to enjoy. Berwyn History by Binchen6 Berwyn Spindle by Mark 2400 part of the more recent history of Berwyn -
Past Times — Winter 2004, Vol. 25, No. 4
The Condors Baseball Team by LaVergne Novak — Excerpt: In the mid-1930s, a group of boys and girls were playing baseball in a field on the west side of Grove Avenue, north of the Illinois Central Railroad tracks. Some “big guys” came along and chased them off the field because they wanted to use it. […] -
Past Times — Summer 2004, Vol. 25, No. 2
Horse-Drawn Wagons, Trains, and Automobiles by John Humiston — Excerpt: South Berwyn streets were paved with macadam, mixed sizes of crushed stone firmly compacted and sometimes bound with asphalt or tar. Curbs were slabs of cut sandstone about four inches thick, two feet high, and five feet long embedded edgewise in the ground at the […]