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9 unusual facts about Rock Island


Charles A. Spring, Jr.

In 1837, the family moved west and settled into farming at Rock Island, Illinois.

Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

ECBC has full-time employees located at three different sites in the United States: Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Md., Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Rock Island, Illinois.

George Corneal

From 1911 to 1914, Corneal was the basketball coach at Rock Island High School in Rock Island, Illinois.

Greg Norton

Greg Norton (born Gregory James Norton, 13 March 1959 in Rock Island, Illinois) is an American musician, formerly of the band Hüsker Dü.

Hurd v. Rock Island Bridge Company

In 1856 a steamboat collided with a bridge, built by the Rock Island Railroad, between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, the first railroad bridge to span the Mississippi.

Lou Black

Born in Rock Island, Illinois, he began playing banjo during early childhood and became professional in 1917.

Paul Henning

Ruth Henning often told her husband about how she and her female cousins often visited her grandparents at the tiny hotel they owned near the Rock Island Railroad station located in Eldon, Missouri.

WHBF

Where Historic Black Hawk Fought, a reference to Chief Black Hawk whose tribe occupied the land that is now Rock Island, Illinois, United States, and the namesake for the WHBF broadcasting stations in Rock Island

Wildcat Wilson

Based in Chicago and training in Rock Island, Illinois, Wilson's Wildcats finished fourth in the nine-team league, with Wilson among the leaders in rushing touchdowns.


Bishop Hill Colony

The Bishop Hill Colony was the landmark Swedish settlement in Western Illinois leading the large Swedish-American communities in Galesburg, Rock Island, and Chicago.

Daniel Webster Flagler

Recognized as an expert on developing and producing artillery and other weapons, Flagler continued his Ordnance service after the war, including assignments at the Watervliet, Augusta, Rock Island, Fort Monroe, Fort Union, San Antonio, Frankford, and Watertown arsenals.

Foss, Oklahoma

It was served by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad (Rock Island) railroad.

Francis Clay

Born and raised in Rock Island, Illinois, he started playing jazz, professionally at the age of 15, played drums behind many of the biggest names of 20th century popular American music.

Henry Peter Bosse

By the 1880s Bosse is employed as a draughtsman and cartographer with the Army Corps of Engineers at Rock Island, Illinois.

Joe Billy McDade

Sara Lynn Darrow, a federal prosecutor based in Rock Island, Illinois (one of the four Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities) has replaced him following her nomination by President Barack Obama and confirmation by the United States Senate.

John B. Hawley

He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice at Rock Island, Illinois.

Joliet Union Station

The Rock Island line runs via Blue Island, Illinois to LaSalle Street Station (track owned by Metra), while the Metra Heritage Corridor line runs via Summit, Illinois to Chicago's Union Station (track owned by Canadian National).

Larry D. Wyche

He also commanded the Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command/Joint Munitions Command, Rock Island, Illinois.

Louis H. Marrero

On November 25, 1863, he was captured and imprisoned at Rock Island, Illinois, until March 1865, when he was taken to Richmond and put on probation.

Mike Barz

Early in his career, Barz adjusted his surname and began working as a news anchor at WHBF-TV in Rock Island, Illinois and at WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he worked as a feature reporter and anchor.

Mississippi Athletic Conference

The Illinois teams are Moline, United Township (of East Moline), Rock Island, Rock Island Alleman, and Galesburg, all representing the Western Big 6 Conference; the other participating teams are Geneseo and Riverdale of Port Byron, Illinois.


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Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

Yoakum's plan envisioned using the Rock Island and Frisco, together with several railroads to be built in Texas and Louisiana and now known as the Gulf Coast Lines, to form a continuous line of railroad extending from Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis to Baton Rouge, Houston, Brownsville, Tampico and Mexico City.

Campbell's Island, Illinois

Campbell's Island was the site of the Battle of Rock Island Rapids, one of the westernmost battles of the War of 1812, when a band of approximately 500 Sauk warriors allied with the British Army clashed on July 19, 1814 with an American force led by Lieutenant John Campbell of the 1st U.S. Regiment of Infantry.

Centennial Bridge

Rock Island Centennial Bridge, connecting Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa

Chicago Pacific Corporation

It managed to use much of the capital made from the liquidation of the Rock Island to acquire non-rail ventures such as The Hoover Company, Pennsylvania House/Kittinger, Inc., and Rowenta A.G..

Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway

--p. 16: Oars run betwe~n Las Animas street and Rock Island bridge--> a trolley park beyond Boulevard Park

Eastern Egg Rock Island

Eastern Egg Rock Island is an island in the Town of St. George in Knox County in the U.S. state of Maine.

Edgington

Edgington, Illinois, unincorporated community in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States

EMD LWT12

First one, EMD serial number 20826, entered service with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad to pull the "Talgo Jet Rocket" train between Chicago and Peoria.

Friedrich Weyerhäuser

Weyerhäuser was buried in the family mausoleum in Chippiannock Cemetery in Rock Island, Illinois.

John Ingram

John W. Ingram, Federal Railroad Administrator of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, 1971–1974

John Looney

John Patrick Looney (1867–1947), gangster in the Rock Island, Illinois area during the early 1900s

Levin H. Campbell, Jr.

After the war Campbell continued his service, including assignments at: the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D.C.; Stockton Ordnance Depot, Stockton, California; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; and Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.

Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean

This army satire follows a small group of Greek soldiers in the island of Kos, when they are assigned to spend a few days guarding a small rock island named Pitta to defend an alleged invasion from Turkish troops.

Munkurin

The article tells about the observations of Pastor Jørgen Landt wrote in 1800, that when seen from land the rock-island presented the appearance of a Monk with red neck and dark grey body and head; and from sea it looked like a ship under full sails.

Nevada, Iowa

The C&NW purchased the Rock Island "Spine Line" which offered better and more direct connections for Minneapolis and Kansas City.

Peoria and Rock Island Railroad

While that section of the P & RI that stretches from Peoria north to Toulon, Illinois became a public trail in 1989, the northern section of the same right-of-way, between Toulon and Rock Island, was liquidated into the hands of adjacent landowners in the private sector.

Rock Island Bridge

Rock Island Centennial Bridge, connecting Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa over the Mississippi River

Rock Island District

The Rock Island District consists of the former Rock Island main line to Joliet and the slightly longer Suburban Line that loops to the west between Gresham and Blue Island.

Rock Island National Cemetery

Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Jackson Rodman, commander at the Rock Island Arsenal; developed the Rodman gun

Rock Island Railroad Bridge

Harry S. Truman Bridge — a 1945 Missouri River drawbridge between Jackson County and Clay County, Missouri, near Kansas City, built by the Rock Island Railroad and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, and now used by the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad and the Union Pacific

Harahan Bridge, also called the Rock Island Bridge — a 1916 Mississippi River bridge between Memphis, Tennessee and Arkansas, and now maintained by the Union Pacific

Rock Island Swing Bridge, also known as the Newport Rail Bridge or the J.A.R. Bridge — a former 1895 swing bridge over the upper Mississippi River between Inver Grove Heights and St. Paul Park, Minnesota, built for the South St. Paul Beltline Railroad, used by the Rock Island until 1980, also used for road traffic until 1999, and partially demolished in 2009

Samuel P. Cox

Frank was not tried for the bank murder however he was tried in 1883 in Gallatin for an 1881 murder of a Rock Island Railroad employee at nearby Winston, Missouri.

Sayre, Oklahoma

The Rock Island would complete its march to the Pacific by filling in the line to Tucumcari, New Mexico.

Stoneburg, Texas

The town developed after the construction of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Texas Railway between Fort Worth, Texas and Salina, Kansas in 1893.

Weyerhaeuser House

He and his brother-in-law, Frederick C.A. Denkmann, founded the Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann Lumber Company in Rock Island.

WHBF

WHBF-TV, a television station (channel 4 digital/virtual) licensed to Rock Island, Illinois, United States

Wild Bunch

On April 3, 1895, the Wild Bunch, without Doolin, held up a Rock Island train at Dover but were unable to open the safe with the $50,000 army payroll.

WPXR

WLKU, an FM radio station (98.9 MHz) licensed to Rock Island, Illinois, United States, which held the call sign WPXR-FM from March 18, 1987 to July 28, 1995