This is the cover of the 1954 book. At the top is a block of W. American Street. Below the title are photos of the train stations. At bottom left is Stephenson Street looking east from Van Buren Avenue. Bottom right is the entrance to Krape Park.

This shows the full jacket cover. At the top left on the back cover and spine is the northeast corner of State Avenue & Stephenson Street. Below is the boyhood home of presidential assassin Charles Guiteau and more of the train station. At the bottom is a house on the southeast corner of Stephenson Street and Park Boulevard, and more of the view down Stephenson Street.

The Milwaukee Road's passenger station, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific. This was on their Milwaukee to Kansas City line and was served daily by the South West Limited. The circus trains used this station when they set up in Taylor Park. Do you remember the circus parades in downtown Freeport?

Buildings on left are Ford Hopkins Rexall Drug, Angelos Restaurant, Read's, the tall Smith Building, Garrity's drug with the cupola. Note the trolley tracks running down to the steel bridge over the Pecatonica River. Buildings on the right are the State Bank building, Emmert's Drugs, a pastry shop, a record store, and S. S. Kresge.

Entrance sign to Krape Park at the corner of W. Empire Street & S. Park Boulevard.

Childhood home of Charles Guiteau, a lawyer with a history of mental illness who assassinated President James Garfield on July 2, 1881. His father, Luther Guiteau came to Freeport in 1833 & was appointed Postmaster by President Harrison in 1840. Luther was a businessman, Clerk of the Circuit Court, and for many years a trusted cashier in Freeport's Second National Bank. Charles' mother died when he was only seven years old, and he was raised by his sister Frances. Luther died in 1880. On June 30, 1882, Charles was hanged at the District of Columbia jail.

House made from recycled brick.