Ash Creek

  • 1883: City of Ashcreek consists of eight blocks
    By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical Society
    January 19, 2021
    The 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…
  • 1871: Second post office placed in Ash Creek
    By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical Society
    January 12, 2021
    The 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…
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