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- By Pastor Jeremy Wiersema, Reformed Church of SteenMay 28, 2025This past Monday was Memorial Day. Flags lined streets in many small towns and flew above cemeteries. Memorial Day, as we all know, is a day to remember those who have died while serving our nation in the military. There were gatherings across our nation and speeches were given that were heartfelt and carefully crafted. Those who died serving in our armed forces died so that people like you…
By Betty Mann, President, Rock County Historical SocietyAugust 08, 2016In November 1867, Mr. Hawes brought with him John Lietze and family who were to maintain a stopping place, or half-way place, as it was called on the mail route. Although both the Estey and Lietze families spent the winter of 1867-68 on the Rock river within ten miles of each other, neither knew of the presence of the other, each family believing itself to be the only one in Rock county. At…
By Betty Mann, Rock County Historical Society PresidentJuly 11, 2016The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on July 18, 1924: ROCK COUNTY AS IT WAS FIFTY ODD YEARS AGO Being a Paper on Pioneer Life as Read by Representative J.N. Jacobson at Hills Old Settler’s Re-Union Permanent settlement began in the southwest corner of the county in 1876. A few years before that time, trappers had operated in the county, visiting streams for the taking of pelts…
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