1850
Edwin Rodgers came to a location as a blacksmith.
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“Edwin Eodgers came here as a blacksmith in 1850. Eogers & Hopkins were wagonmakers ; later a Mr.”
1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 165 / book p. 672
Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.
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