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First train on the Chicago, Rockford, Northern Railroad that later became CB&Q. During the 1860s and 1870s prominent Rockford citizens worked to bring new railroad companies to Rockford to break the monopoly of the Galena and Chicago Union. A…

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Mary Dorr Manny purchased this home on South Main Street from the Holland family in 1860. The home sat on the north side of Kent Creek surrounded by extensive gardens. The home neighbored Robert Tinker's cottage (built in 1865 on the south side of…
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