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Paperback Roscoe Book

ISBN: 1467110221

ISBN13: 9781467110228

Roscoe

(Part of the Images of America: Illinois Series)

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Robert J. Cross arrived in Roscoe in 1835, and by the 1840s the village had two churches, sawmills, a gristmill, a woolen mill, and a distillery. Roscoe had become the musical center of the area, with the city's brass band performing at the ceremony for the laying of Beloit College's cornerstone. Founded by hardworking, temperate abolitionists, the village was named after an Englishman well known for his antislavery poems. The villagers were interested...

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