ROCKVILLE CEMETERY
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The-DuHawks
N 42° 25.109 W 091° 08.679
15T E 652647 N 4697909
This cemetery is located just south of Dyersville, Iowa. The cemetery was in disarray, the students of Beckman High took it on as a school project and cleaned up cemetery.
There are approximately 200 burial sites.
Waymark Code: WM3PQR
Location: Iowa, United States
Date Posted: 04/30/2008
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History of Rockville, IA
Rockville is a true Iowa Ghost Town, haunted by the hope and dreams of me. At one time, Rockville had three (3) hotels, a schoolhouse, post office, several stores and was one of the most important trading and mill points in eastern Iowa.
In 1835 to 1850, when the early settlers of this territory came west from Dubuque by stage coach, one of their first stops was a small town named Rockville, about two miles northwest of Worthington on the banks of the North Fork Maquoketa River. This place soon developed into a thriving community and had a large water-powered feed mill, hotel, wagon shop, church, etc. The Rockville post office served the surrounding area. Later on some of this area developed into the towns
of Dyersville and Worthington. Some people came with teams as far away as twenty miles to get their wheat ground for flour, sometimes staying overnight before returning home.
In those days water was the cheapest source of power so different types of mills were built along the river, as many as seven from Dyersville to Cascade, such as flour, paper and lumber mills. Then in 1858 to 1860, when the railroad came to Worthington and another railroad in 1857 was with a few miles of Dyersville, the Rockville enterprises began to move to the towns on the railroad and the town of Rockville began to deteriorate. There is very little remaining of the town except the ruins of the old mill building and a house reputed to have been the Stage Coach Stop, but the size of the cemetery is good proof of it's very existence. When you travel east on Rockville Road the old Rockville Grist Mill is on the left side of the road.
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