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Our Hersey Heritage (a history of the Hersey-Talcott family) --courtesy of Marion T.(Mick) Hersey, mick143fely@hotmail.com

Being a Boy in Old Rockford, Page One, Numbers 34, 120, 176 --Rockford Morning Star, Author Unknown

OFFICAL LIST OF SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES, COUNTY OFFICERS, &c., OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1836 TO THE PRESENT TIME --Rockford Weekly Register-Gazette, May 12, 1855

Don Alonzo Spaulding--Illinois Government Field Notes--Vol. 372--courtesy of Donald Sonenson, meanderman@boldnet.net

Winnebago County Forest Preserve District Begins, 1922 --various sources

American Aerial County History Series, Vol., 34 Winnebago County, IL., --John Drury

Some History Concerning the Blackhawk Springs Resort --various Sources

SOUVENIR BOOK of the WORLD WAR AND "BUY AT HOME GUIDE"--Published September, 1918, by The Rockford Morning: Star Copyright 1918, by A. E. Geldhof

Winnebago County, Halloween in the News --various sources

The Fall of the Winnebago County Courthouse, 1877 --various news sources

The County Seat Located at Winnebago ---from Past and Present of City of Rockford and Winnebago County Illinois, Charles A Church and H.H. Waldo, 1905

The Polish Claims Delay Land Patents --- from Past and Present of City of Rockford and Winnebago County Illinois, Charles A Church and H.H. Waldo, 1905

The Seven Years War Over the Site of the County Seat ---from Past and Present of City of Rockford and Winnebago County Illinois, Charles A Church and H.H. Waldo, 1905

Winnebago County and the Civil War

Winnebago County and the Spanish-American War

1st County Election

1st Settlers of 1835

Pioneers of 1836

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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