Hardwick
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJanuary 10, 2023The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older. The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on July 22, 1943. Whenever you feel you’re working too many hours a day, at too small a salary, think of Mr. and Mrs. William Schuldt, of Hardwick. When…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyApril 12, 2022The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older. The visit of Jesse and Frank James, two of the most noted robbers in the 1870’s, to Rock county was recalled this week by James P. Kennedy, Luverne. Although he did not actually see the men, he recalls…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJune 08, 2021The following appeared in The Rock County Star-Herald on Feb. 9, 1950. Lunch Program Inaugurated at Hardwick School Hot Dish, Sandwich, Dessert and Milk Now Are Served to Children The traditional lunch bucket — as important to the pupil as pencils and books in years gone by — has vanished from the Hardwick public school scene. The cold lunches, which for years were a part of the everyday life…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyAugust 25, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village continued from 8-20-20 edition of the Star Herald. Hardwick The Lodges Four lodges have active organizations in Hardwick, the Modern Woodmen of America, Royal Neighbors of America, Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. The oldest of these is Hardwick Camp No. 3851, M. W. A. It was instituted May 11, 1896, by M. H.…- By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyAugust 18, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village, continued from 8-13-20 edition of the Star Herald. Hardwick With the prosperous times in the country a decade ago, Hardwick kept pace and made rapid strides forward. The town’s second railroad — the branch from Worthington — was completed in 1900. The federal census of that year gave the village a population of…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyAugust 11, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village continued from 8-6-20 edition of the Star Herald. Hardwick Hardwick became a municipal corporation in 1898. So early in its history as 1893, however, the first attempt to bring about this desired condition was made. On July 20, 1893, a petition was presented to the board of county commissioners, asking it to take…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyAugust 04, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village continued from 7-30-20 edition of the Star Herald. Hardwick At the close of the year 1892 we find that there were in the new town three general stores, one hotel, one lumber yard, one fuel yard, two grain warehouses, two blacksmith shops, one saloon and one livery stable. Within the year Hardwick had developed…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJuly 28, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village continued from 7-23-20 edition of the Star Herald. Hardwick There was practically no change at the station during the next few years. Otter Otterson continued buying grain for E. A. Brown, and later John Otterson bought for the Iowa, Minnesota & Dakota Grain company, which succeeded Cudahy & Butler. In…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJuly 21, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village continued from 7-16-20 edition of the Star Herald. Hardwick According to the last census figures, Hardwick ranks third in size among Rock county villages. It is a compactly built, neat appearing, prosperous little municipality located nine miles north of the county seat, at the junction of two lines of the Rock…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyAugust 06, 2019The following appeared in the Rock County Star Herald on July 1, 1965. TALK ABOUT A WET SPRING- She Pumps Water Every Morning At 3 A. M. To Keep Well From Getting Too Full “It’s the absolute truth,” says Mrs. Elsie Herschberger, Kenneth. “It’s been so wet this spring that I have to get up every morning at 3 o’clock to pump out my well, or it gets too full.” It’s no…
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