Round Grove, Illinois

Jonathan Haines put up a saw-mill on Rock Creek, about a mile and a half above Unionville. He had only cut a few feet of lumber when a freshet came and took his mill down stream. It was hauled back and set up again, but not in time to cut any lumber that season. In the spring of 1837 it was again started, and with better success. During this season two stones were put in for grinding corn and wheat. This mill site was in what was afterward called

Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States, published 1885.

Col. E. Seely for 25 years president of the Old Settler's Association, was master of ceremonies, and at one in the afternoon, the exercises opened with prayer by Rev. A. M. Early, who settled at Erie in 1843. He thanked the Lord for the joy of the hour, and for the privilege of living amid scenes so captivating. Prof. M. R. Kelly was the orator of the day. He congratulated the early settlers on the erection of this venerable cabin as a fitting monument of their honorable history. "Here you came, as New Englanders, New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians, Virginians, as Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotchman, Germans, and in friendly relationship you made your claims, built your log cabins, and ever since have dwelt in harmony. Your wise management of public affairs has made the reputation of old Whiteside second to no other county in the state. Look at your palatial dwellings, fine schools, well tilled farms, all the conveniences of civilization, and then think of the time when you lived in cabins, when your courts and worship were held in private houses, when you broke prairie, and went supperless to bed, when you go your potatoes from Rock Island, and you meal from Henderson's Grove, when you paid 25 cents postage on a letter, when you shook with the ague, when you swapped provisions with the Indians, when you made coffee from toasted bread, when whole families slept in the same room partitioned off with sheets and shawls."

Passage source: History of Whiteside County, Illinois from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 : Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1908.

This was incorparated May 18, 1903. The capital stock is $20,000, divided into eight hundred shares paid up, with a par value of twenty-five dollars each. The object of the company is to build and maintain telephone lines or exchanges or both in Whiteside and adjoining counties, state of Illinois, with such extensions or connections with other telephone lines as may hereafter be decided, and to furnish telephone communications over its lines at a minimum cost to its stockholders.

Passage source: History of Whiteside County, Illinois from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 : Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1908.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Mount Pleasant Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.