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By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyFebruary 09, 2021The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 02-04-20 edition of the Star Herald) No sooner was the town-to-be laid out than activity in its promotion became evident. The first to build on the site was A. E. Patterson, who completed a grain warehouse about the first of September, 1885. Ezra Rice put up the second grain house later in the…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyFebruary 02, 2021The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 01-28-20 edition of the Star Herald) But Bruce refused to entirely forfeit its lease of life. There were few signs of activity during 1890, but none of a nature that assured a regeneration. J. N. Jacobson, upon moving to Hills, resigned as postmaster of Bruce, and was succeeded in May by F. T.…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJanuary 25, 2021The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 01-21-20 edition of the Star Herald) Bruce On section 30, Martin township, two miles west of Hills, is located the Illinois Central station of Bruce. In addition to the depot the business houses of the unpretentious hamlet are confined to a general store and two elevators. Bruce has known better…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJanuary 19, 2021The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village ( from 01-14-20 edition of the Star Herald) In the fall of 1880 a side track was constructed, and a correspondent predicted that Ashcreek was about to shape itself into a metropolis. The extent of the subsequent building operations, however, was the erection of a second grain warehouse, 16x30 feet in size, put by…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJanuary 12, 2021The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 01-07-20 edition of the Star Herald) Ashcreek The little village of Ashcreek, the first station south of Luverne on the Doon extension of the Omaha railway, is one of the two Rock county hamlets in Clinton township. The platted town is on section 23 of that precinct. Though it has never assumed…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJanuary 05, 2021The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 12-31-20 edition of the Star Herald) For several years following its founding, Virginia was at a standstill so far as any material growth was concerned. It proved its advantage as a grain market from the start, but it was not until the early nineties that development along broader lines commenced…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyDecember 28, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 12-24-20 edition of the Star Herald) Steen In the list of Rock county’s unincorporated villages Steen ranks among the foremost, both in size and importance. It is located on the northwest quarter of section 32, Clinton township, near the southern boundary of the county, and is a station on the…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyDecember 21, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 12-17-20 edition of the Star Herald) The matter was brought to a conclusion at the meeting of the commissioners on January 8, 1903, when a request signed by twelve of those interested in the proposed incorporation, asking for a withdrawal of their original petition, was presented. Although no…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyDecember 15, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 12-10-20 edition of the Star Herald) The year 1901 was one of substantial improvement. The town’s first blacksmith, E. M. Newell, came from Edgerton in February, erected a shop and was ready to serve his patrons by the twentieth of the month. Thomte & Johnson were on the ground in March and…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyDecember 08, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 12-03-20 edition of the Star Herald.) Kenneth Located on the line between sections 1 and 2, Vienna township, on the Worthington-Hardwick branch of the Rock Island railroad, seven miles southeast from Hardwick, is Kenneth, the youngest of Rock county’s towns. Although it was the last to come into…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyDecember 01, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 11-25-20 edition of the Star Herald.) School A completely equipped, nine grade school is maintained in Magnolia. It is conducted in a two-story building, erected in 1893 at a cost of several thousand dollars. Before that year the site was occupied by a small district school house, in which a…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyNovember 23, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 11-19-20 edition of the Star Herald.) The proposition was carried by a majority of four votes, there being twenty cast in favor of the project [to create a municipality] and sixteen against. The election to select the first officers under the new government was set for October 2. Following is the…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyNovember 17, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 11-12-20 edition of the Star Herald.) Within two weeks after the plat was recorded, Gov. Yale had sold ten lots in the new town, more were sold a little later, and the promoters predicted a lively boom during the season of 1892. And they were not altogether disappointed in their hope. One of the…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyNovember 10, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 11-05-20 edition of the Star Herald.) During the summer of 1884 an event occurred which resulted in the death of one proposed town and the birth of another. The victim in this case was Drake. That point had proven to be an undesirable location for any expansion on the part of the railroad company…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyNovember 03, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 10-29-20 edition of the Star Herald.) Magnolia Magnolia, an incorporated village of eastern Rock county, is a station on the Worthington-Mitchell branch of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad, seven miles east of Luverne. The line separating sections 11 and 14, Magnolia…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyOctober 27, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 10-22-20 edition of the Star Herald.) The Lodges Three secret societies maintain active organizations in Beaver Creek. They are the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Degree of Honor and Brotherhood of American Yeomen. For fifteen years Beaver Creek was the home of one of the leading posts…
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