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A boy is seated in a 1902 Baker Electric Automobile on the east side of the railroad tunnel on South St. and Lake St. It must be 1902 or later since the special December 12, 1901 edition of the Woodstock Sentinel notes that Dr. Windmueller has the…

This scan of two train engines and a coal car traveling over the viaduct on South St. is undated but the cutline for the Sesquicentennial Photo Exhibit labels it as nineteenth century.
It is not clear enough to determine if there is one track or…

In this postcard the vegetation is lush and colorized so it looks like late summer.

A copy of this postcard for sale on Ebay was postmarked 1908.

The South St. tunnel (culvert/viaduct) is a helicoidal or spiral stone arch. One part was…

This photo of the culvert (also known as the tunnel or the viaduct) under the railroad tracks on South Street is nearly identical to the other Wm. G. Hoffman, Chicago postcard. This is postmarked 1908.

It is possible to see the differences in…

The South St. tunnel (culvert/viaduct) is a helicoidal or spiral stone arch. One part was completed in 1867 and the other (over the other train track) was finished in 1897.
Allen Stebbins, Chair of the Woodstock Historic Preservation Commission,…