SPRING GROVE.

A postoffice was opened at Spring Grove, on the lines between Sections 28 and 29, in 1835, soon after the Rock Island stage route was established. There was quite a little settlement at this place, and some trading was done there before the railroad was built and the towns of Alexis and Gerlaw started. A United Presbyterian Church was there, but was afterward removed to Gerlaw. Most of the little town was also transferred to that place. The old cemetery is about all that now remains to mark the spot where it stood

 

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