Lowell

Lowell w as located on the north shore of Lowell Island — now Vandruff's Island. It was surveyed in June, 1844, and plat approved by county commissioners the second of September, 1844, and filed of record the 16th of October, 1844. The plat was executed for Joshua Vandruff, Zadoc Kalbaugh and Thomas Patterson, and was four blocks long, east, and west, and three blocks wide, facing north on the main branch of the Rock River, about where the first present north wagon bridge crosses the river. Regularly named streets were Kalbaugh, Patterson and Mill running north to the dam. Lemuel Andrews kept the first store. It was short lived. An old canal was built there in the early forties to surmounty the Rock River Rapids; for the construction which the government appropriated 100,00 in gold. Footprints still show where it existed.

Historic Rock Island

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