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Food Bank Celebrates 40 Years

Jean

Source: The Observer, June 2, 2023, written by Amanda Hudson.

St. Peter’s Cathedral organ rededicated April 29, 2023

Jean

Source: The Observer, May 5, 2023, written by Lynne Conner

Anna Peck Sill’s Grave Marking Ceremony Held on May 18, 2023

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The Robert Hempstead Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists presented a dedication of a grave marker for Anna Peck Sill, Founder and Principal of Rockford Female Seminary on May 18, 2023 at Greenwood Cemetery. Rockford Female Seminary would later become Rockford College and then Rockford University.

Enjoy these scans of the event program and a photo before the unveiling of the grave marker.

 

(end of event program)

Photo before the unveiling taken by Amber Kresol on May 18, 2023.

Timber Area Turns Into Campgrounds June 5,1966

Marie

 

Source: Morning Star  June 5, 1966   p.E4

Boulder Monument for Ulysses S. Grant’s Visit to Rockford in 1880

Boulder Monument for Ulysses S. Grant’s Visit to Rockford in 1880

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Enjoy these newspaper articles gathered on the boulder commemorating Ulysses S. Grant’s 1880 visit to Rockford.

The boulder bearing a bronze plate was dedicated on September 16, 1929 at Fair Grounds Park.

Current location: As of May 12, 2023, the Rockford Park District stated the boulder is currently at the Talcott-Page Park Maintenance Shop secured behind a fence.  Rockford Park District staff said it was removed from Fair Grounds Park after “some kids rolled it down the hill.”

Source: The Rockford Register-Gazette, Sep 14, 1929,  page 6.

Source: The Rockford Morning Star, Sep 17, 1929, page 1.

Source: The Rockford Morning Star, Sep 17, 1929, page 1 and continued on page 2.

Source: The Rockford Register-Gazette, Sep 17, 1929,  page 7.

Source: Sunday Register Star, “Rockford’s Hidden History,” July 2 1995, page 17.

Source: Sunday Register Star, “Rockford’s Hidden History,” July 2 1995, page 17.