Photo Detectives, your February challenge is to put names with faces in a Don Peasley photo from 2010. This happy group is celebrating a $500,000 donation from the Gavers Community […]

Our new year of Photo Detective is off to a successful start! Anneliese McGregor (on the left in the photo) contacted our intrepid Photo Detective Maggie Crane and provided names […]

Photo Detectives, your last mystery should have been relatively easy to solve, an early Christmas gift from our intrepid Chief Photo DetectiveMaggie Crane. The Shell station was located at 850 […]

Last week’s Photo Detective showed what might have been Woodstock’s smallest gas station, located at 425 Washington St.; the street address was 421 Washington St. until 1944. Today, shrubs and […]

This building is in the running for the smallest gas station in Woodstock. Built in 1929, it operated as a Shell station until ceasing operation in 1941. The building is […]

The station was located at 235 Washington St. After Andrew Steffensen retired, Ralph Kristensen stepped in to lease the station in 1946. In 1961, he moved his business across the […]

How did you do, Photo Detectives? The building pictured above is located at 245 McHenry Ave., at the northwest corner of Routes 120 and 47. The spot was nicknamed Six […]

While our dedicated Photo Detectives might find this photo relatively easy, The Woodstock Independent also asks you to identify the building’s chain of owners. Caps on? Here are your clues. […]

Photo Detectives, did you recognize this gas station as the current location of Frisbie & Lohmeyer Insurance? In 1964, Maurice and Leland Brasile took over from the Goodall family, changing […]

This month, Photo Detectives, we have two photos to help you identify the location. Harvard businessman F.R. Goodall founded one of the first oil companies in McHenry County. He distributed […]