BlockRockham Town
The complete chapter on this township from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909. 306 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
1 settlementWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockham | 1 | 10 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is named in the chapter.
The chapter
306 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Rockham Town
Rockham is located on section 32, 117-66, Faulk county, and has a population of about 250. Has good graded schools, German M. E. church and English M. E. church, and also hold meetings here of the German Euthern denomination.
It has two banks, three general stores, furniture store, drug store, harness shop and shoe repairing, two hotels and one lunch counter, three land offices, general hardware and farm machinery, two lumber yards, livery barn, meat market, three elevators, coal sheds and a newspaper also a good opera house.
The business men are energetic and are alert for any business enterprise that will benefit the town . They are courteous in their business and invite all that are looking for a good place to locate to investigate here before they decide on a location.
The country is settled by wide-a-wake farmers and stock raisers and produces a good amount of grain and live stock. This is a great shipping point for farmers and is one of the best towns west of Redfield on the Chicago & Northwestern line.
The stores here keep their stock of goods up to those that are located in towns three times the size of this and you are able to purchase goods here at a price that will astonish you.
Miranda
Miranda is the third station on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad in Faulk county and is located eight miles west of Rockham and nine miles east of the county seat, on section one in Arcade township. It is surrounded by a rich, well farmed agricultural territory, which gives it a
Since the organization of the town Miranda has maintained a band and orchestra, which has proved a credit to the town and an honor to all that are identified with it. An illustration of the musicians may be found in this history.
Provenance
Text from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.