Sources: CD Source, courtesy Laura Kenyon, December 2021 and mystateline.com, September 20, 2022
Business
“Hosiery Firm Plans to Build – Leave Old Plant” (article from 1950)
Source: ROCKFORD MORNING STAR, June 22, 1950, pg 8.
“In New Warehouse” – Lorden Storage Company, Inc. (article from 1951)
Source: Published in Morning Star, April 1, 1951, pg. 48.
Manikin Hosiery Company Building (currently the Lorden Building in Davis Park)
Source: Sanborn Map Company, 1913, Vol. 1; Republished, 1951.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps Collection website (accessed 9/8/2022).
See “Image 22” online: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn02127_008/
Source: 2022 Google Maps view of the building known as the Lorden Building, located in Davis Park/Founders Landing, maintained by the Rockford Park District.
B.Z.B. Knitting Company Building (currently the Lorden Building in Davis Park)
Source: Sanborn Map Company, 1913 (with last corrections made Sep. 1928), Vol. 1, sheet/page 24. Located in Rockford Public Library’s Local History Room.
2022 Google Maps view of the building known as the Lorden Building, located in Davis Park/Founders Landing, maintained by the Rockford Park District.
Hotel Faust menu, circa 1950s
Source: N. IL & S. WI Business & Industry Records collection [archival material], publication circa 1950s
6265 Newburg Road, probably built by Giles C. Hart (came to the county November 1836) before 1859, in section 34. Balance Design was there from 1995-2007. Razed before February 28, 2022.
Source: Image captured by google.com/maps, August 2021
Veterans Who Have Passed–John “Jack” W. Egler
Source:Â Rockford Register Star, Feb. 7, 2022.
Veterans Who Have Passed–George Moate
Source:Â Rockford Register Star, Feb. 15, 2022.
Veterans Who Have Passed–Kenneth “Ken” E. Beeman
Source:Â Rockford Register Star, Feb. 13, 2022.
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