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- Rock River Industry
- Flowing through rich agricultural
land, the Rock River provided needed
- water power for local Wisconsin
industries. Among the earliest in the 1840s were flour and lumber
mills, followed in the 1850s by woolen and paper mills and, later,
cotton mills. Efficient farming was provided for with the manufacture
of plows, reapers, twine binders, windmills, and platform and
wagon scales for weighing grain. Farm wagons, carriages, sleighs
and cutters, as well as furniture, were also early products of
Rock River industry. So too were processed meats, churns and
other dairy equipment for the farm. By the turn of the century,
the early gasoline engine, motorized vehicles, machine tools
and precision instruments were among familiar products of the
valley, as were the electric brake and clutch. In more recent
times, such Rock River industrial products as fountain pens,
diesel engines, automobiles and paper-making machinery have become
worldwide in their markets.
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- Erected in 1983
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