Site Map
This guide will get you there and back again without getting completely lost.
HOME is probably where you came in; features links to each page, photo of carriage house, message from Curator, business address and phone number, copyright data, counter, and webmaster contact. Also includes Mapquest link on how to find museum.
ABOUT US provides history of society, carriage house, museum, names of officers and directors.
WHAT'S NEW features current events plus Whiteside County Township plat maps.
RESEARCH details museum hours and outlines research request policy; includes mapquest directions to find museum.
MEMBERSHIP explains various membership options with mail-in form to join Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society.
NEWSLETTERS is where old news is good news if one needs to recall articles from past issues.
STORIES articles written by members or citizens speaking of events in local history.
PHOTO ALBUM where old pictures allow one to reflect on obscure bits of history that time forgets.
- First plane to land in area?
- Richard Arey home in Rock Falls
- Detrich auto built in 1900
- Bressler's mill in Jordan Township
- Avenue G bridge under construction
- 1st Avenue Bridge across Rock River
- J. R. Bell and Son, Sterling, ca1893
- E.E. Sheetz Millinery, ca1900
- Flock Hardware, Sterling
- The Fair Varieties, ca1888, Sterling
- First gas engine on tractor
- Charter Compamy employees, 1904
- Government Dam from Rock Falls side
- Government Dam on Sterling side
- Repair of Lower Dam, August 1895
- Moses Dillon lumber wagon, 1911
- E B Zimmerman Grocer, Rock Falls
- City of Henry Tugboat on Hennepin Canal
- The Hoover home, Sterling
- Rock River Ice Gorge, Avenue G Bridge
- William Flock to Puerto Rico, 1898
- Northwestern Fair, Shoot the Chutes
- Miller Distillery, Cooper Department
- Original Schubert Symphony Club
- Keystone Band of Sterling-Rock Falls
- Illinois Straw Products Co. Explosion, 1891
- The 'Old Girls' Reunion, 1892
- Early Police and First Jail in Central Park
- Sterling Train Depot Move, 1924
- C&NW Railroad Yards at Nelson
- C&NW Crossing Sinnissippi Bayou
- Rock Falls Manufacturing Co. Hearses
- Rock Falls News, 1882-1896
- Sterling Second Ward, Central School
- Sterling Second Ward Teachers 1885
- Stone School, Jordan Township
- Sterling Gazette Office on Locust Street
- The Standard Newspaper Staff, Sterling
- Early parade street scene in Sterling
- Locust street flood, June 24, 1925
- Wallace School Fire, April 23, 1909
- Sterling Municipal Band, Circa 1926
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FOR SALE items which just might satisfy your hunger for historical data.
- "1872 Whiteside County Atlas & Undex"- Features 40+ Plat maps and over 4,500 names indexed to location.
- "Lincoln Tales Tall and True"- A narrative by Brian "Fox" Ellis presenting six anthologies from the life of President Lincoln.
- "Lincoln in Illinois"- A 2009 Publication which features 91 photos of Abe Lincoln statues in Illinois, with essays.
- "Lincoln-Manahan Home Wood Replica"- honors Lincoln's visit to Sterling in 1856 as guest at the William Manahan home, now restored.
- "The Hopewell Civilization in the Sauk Valley"- Wolf and Linnea Koch's Book tells the real story behind the Sinnissippi Indian Mounds.
- "Grandon Civic Center Construction Photos"- Book features over 100 photos from 1938
- Four Sterling area Historic Structures Books By David Alan Badger
- "My Story" By John D. Arey, Book
- "Photos From the Archives" in Postcard format
- Two "Sterling of Illinois" Books by David Alan Badger
- Retrospective: Sarah Worthington, Book
- SRFHS Postcard Collection, Book
- Postcard Book in PDF format on CD
- Official Lincoln Statue Postcards
- History of Whiteside County, Illinois, Bent-Wilson, 1877
- Whiteside County by Wayne Bastain, 1968
- Joined by a River
- Sterling, Dixon, and Eastern Electric Railroad
- Roots on the Prairie
- Self-Guided Tour of Whiteside County
LINKS connections to other web sites of historical interest.
Contact: DIRECTOR If requesting research first read RESEARCH POLICY.
Contact: WEBMASTER Ask any questions concerning this site.
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