HISTORIC events 

Here you will find collections of information about different events in history that do not fall under other categories.

Timeline

Incorpoation of Table Rock

Annual firefighters consignment sale

Fire & Flood

Teddy Roosevelt visits

William Jennings Bryan Visits

Afternoon Tea

1800s, grasshopper plagues

1864 lynching of horse thieves, 1893 account

1864 lynching of horse thieves, 1900 account

1870 Death of John Gere ("Killed by Indians")

1882 shooting of John Blacklaw

1888 Schoolchildren's blizzard

1896 Murder of Town Marshall Craig

1912, Teddy Roosevelt Whistlestop visit

1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic

1959, Last Steam Threshing Machine Harvest in the County