The updated 1943 Sanborn map for Naperville shows it being Moser
Fuel and Supply Company. There were two coal silos then. From the
building layout on the Sanborn map, even then lumber and
construction supply was the primary business.
My family moved to Naperville in the summer of 1967 (into a house
in one of Harold Moser's developments) when the population was a
little over 12,000. Our house was next to a corn/soybean field the
entire 8 years we lived there (south of Knoch Park - much larger
then) and we were on the western Naperville city limit. It maybe
hard to believe today, but the area around Illinois 59 (as was the
area just immediately west of Naperville) was nearly all open
farmland until the mid 1970s.
Bill Hirt
On 3/27/2019 7:39 PM, keithnystedt via
Groups.Io wrote:
Harold Moser purchased the Kluckholm Coal Yard in 1941. He
converted it to a lumber yard when natural gas became plentiful
and the demand for coal declined.
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