Preserving Our Legacy: The Charles Tallman Project – An Introduction
Renovating a building is a resource consuming project that can last months, even years. It takes a dedicated group of individuals all focused on one goal to get the job done right. No more is this true...
View ArticlePreserving Our Legacy: The Charles Tallman Project – Why Should You Help?
We all live in a fast-paced world. With the advent of tweets, texts, and Facebook posts, it is easy to forget that each of us this very second are making history. It might not be earth-shattering,...
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Preserving Our Legacy: The Charles Tallman Project – Leaving Your Legacy...
LEAVE YOUR LEGACY @ THE CHARLES TALLMAN HOUSE! At eighty percent completion, the Charles Tallman House is set to become the new archives and research center for historians, genealogists, and history...
View ArticleBreadbasket: Seed to Spoon
Food is a universal language. We all need it. But it is more than that. Food says so much about who we are, where we’ve been, what we care about. Rock County, like every other place in America, has a...
View ArticleFrances Willard’s One-Room Schoolhouse by: Richard Masterson
They were pioneers forging new frontiers following the post American Revolution period of our history. Josiah Willard, a businessman and farmer, his wife Mary, and their three children Oliver, Frances...
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The Finial – Fall 2013 Edition
Welcome to the new FINIAL. Download the Fall issue. Please help us cut down on printing cost by subscribing to our newsletter and we will send this to you every quarter. Click here to read the online...
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Is Local the New Organic?
Saturdays, 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, May through October Located on Main Street between Milwaukee and Wall Street in Downtown Janesville Is Local the New Organic? September is Organic Harvest Month...
View ArticleRock County WWII Camp Request
I’m a freelance writer/photographer currently researching for an article on POW camps in Wisconsin and Illinois during WW 2, to be published in the spring edition of Northwest Quarterly Magazine. I am...
View ArticleBlast from the Past: Womens Fitness in the Victorian Era
The image of the Victorian woman is that of a sedentary, home-bound lady in large clothing that restricts fast and active movement. The female figure was thought to be physically weak and naturally...
View ArticleOak Hill Chapel- 1 Year Later
Since the City Council and City Staff agreed with the Friends of Oak Hill Chapel group to save the chapel and to allow the friends group to perform much of the work needed for the restoration this is a...
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Company A, 192nd Tank Battalion
M-3 “Stuart” tank of the type that would have been used in the Philippines. April 9th marks the 73rd anniversary of the surrender of US Forces on Bataan in the Philippine Islands. That event includes...
View ArticlePreserving the History of Janesville Oak Hill Chapel. 2 years Later Progress...
Preserving the History of Janesville’s Oak Hill Chapel: 2 years Later Progress Report By: Richard Snyder June 1st, 2015 was the 2-year anniversary since the first contact with the City of Janesville on...
View ArticleChill at Oak Hill Embraced by Community
JANESVILLE, WI— Imagine the surprise of the Rock County Historical Society staff when, over the course of just a few days, over 500 people selected “going” to the Chill at Oak Hill event on the RCHS...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Mary Frei
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View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Roger Schwartz
You may have noticed a lot has been done to beautify the Lincoln-Tallman House and campus grounds. This past year we had four large Campus Project Days to clean up the campus grounds and make repairs....
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Toni Ellis
Since March 2015, Toni has been one of the many faces of the Rock County Historical Society as a Front Desk Volunteer. She greets our visitors, helps with special projects, and is a constant source of...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Ruth Anderson
If you have spent time at the Charles Tallman Archives and Research Center in recent years, you know what a valuable asset and essential component Ruth Anderson has become to its operation. Ruth has...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Rita Walker
For the past 20 years, Rita Walker has shared her time with the Rock County Historical Society. Rita has been welcoming visitors and guests to the Lincoln-Tallman House as an interpreter, and special...
View ArticleTeachers Needed For The Frances Willard School’s Final Season at Fairgrounds
JANESVILLE, WI— The school bell is ringing, and it is time once again to welcome students from all over Rock County to the historic Frances Willard School House. Nathan Fuller, the Education Curator at...
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