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Phillips Fire Historic Marker
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Mary Lynn Norton and Cathy Mess unveiling the Phillips Fire historical marker, while Avrid Bostrom and Alderman Victor Cress (seated) look on. Bostrom, a local jeweler, headed the Lakeside Park planning and development, and was instrumental in acquiring the historical marker for the park. Cress was a survivor of the terrible fire and spoke about the day the fire raged in 1894.
September 15, 1957
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