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Paperback Loves Park Book

ISBN: 0738590932

ISBN13: 9780738590936

Loves Park

(Part of the Images of America: Illinois Series)

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Loves Park got its name from Malcolm A. Love, a Rockford industrialist and alderman who, in 1901, purchased 236 acres of land along the east bank of the Rock River just a few miles north of Rockford. Love used the property as a private retreat. Soon thereafter, a railroad was built through the area, and in the decades that followed, residences and businesses started to arrive. The city incorporated in 1947 with a population of 4,500. Once it was established,...

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