User talk:Brian keith 1963

Harlem Illinois Harlem township  Winnebago county    early settles to the area was Hiram Wattles staked out for his town called Scipio. in the area called the Big Bottom near the Rock River. the classic name didnt entice the hoped-for buyers and poor Hiram couldnt give his lots away His was the only house ever built there. The name harlem comes for harlem in New York which in turn was name for Harrlem in the netherlands, The first dutch settlers on Manhattan ialand lonely and homesick chose the name to remind them of home. and later generations moving here to Illinois named Harlem for the same reason .Harlem became a stopping place of the kenosha Rockford  railroad  later on to become the chicago north western railway  running about 13 trains a day with mail milk  and freigth and passengers. it was i nice little town about 5 miles north east of the city of Rockford. locted at forest hills and harlem road  at one time harlem road was called church street and forest hills was bluff street  with the two only streets in harlem called henry and east, AT  one time in harlem there was a school house, and town hall now at the midway village musuem in Rockford, and train depot a grain elevator. whick was built by the fabrick family later on taken over by pattenson lumber company a stock yard, a black smith shop a store ran by the fabrick family  later on ran by frank rogers ,