Source: Rockford Register Star, January 8, 2020
Ogle County
Natural Land Institute purchases land – 2017
Source: Rockford Register Star 8/30/2017
Home on Leave – Ruben C. Ewens – 1944
Source: Rockford Morning Star 6/11/1944
Home Bureau Ogle County
Will meet at home of A. R. Swenson
Lesson will be “Nutritious Meals for Busy Days”
Source: Rockford Morning Star 9/7/1944
Black Hawk Statue Restoration
3 photographs of damage to statue
“Funds Needed for Black Hawk Statue Restoration” by Susan Johnson, copy editor.
“The rough winter of 2013-2014 took a toll on the famous Black Hawk Statue in Ogle County. The 50-foot statue stands on a 125′ bluff overlooking Rock River in Lowden State Park. Constructed in 1910 by sculptor Lorado Taft, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally titled The Eternal Indian, it was intended to be a composite of Native American tribes who inhabited the area. Later, it was given the name “Black Hawk” in honor of the Sauk Leader who tried to defend his people’s homeland against the encroaching whites in the Black Hawk War of 1832.”
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Source: Rock River Times, July 2-8, 2014, Vol. 21, No. 37, pp 8 -9.
Black Hawk War
15 weeks duration
70 soldiers killed
Approximately 850 Indians killed
Source: 977.331 C973r Rockford Big Town/Little City (1832)
Massacre at Stillman’s Run, Ogle County
Source: 977.33 C471p Past and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County (pg 6)
Beekmanites
Beekmanites believed a woman in Ogle County was the reincarnation of Christ
Source: “Rockford, Big Town / Little City” 977.331 C973r Rockford Public Library, Local History