Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXIV Rockham 1909
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ROCKHAM.



    Rockham is located on section 32, 117-66, Faulk county, and has a population

of about 250. Has good graded schools, German M. E. church and English M. E.

church, and also hold meetings here of the German Luthern denomination.



    It has two banks, three general stores, furniture store, drug store, harness

shop and shoe repairing, two hotels and one lunch counter, three land offices,

general hardware and farm machinery, two lumber yards, livery barn, meat market,

three elevators, coal sheds and a newspaper also a good opera house.



    The business men are energetic and are alert for any business enterprise

that will benefit the town. They are courteous in their business and invite all

that are looking for a good place to locate to investigate here before they

decide on a location.



    The country is settled by wide-a-wake farmers and stock raisers and produces

a good amount of grain and live stock. This is a great shipping point for

farmers and is one of the best towns west of Redfield on the Chicago &

Northwestern line.



    The stores here keep their stock of goods up to those that are located in

towns three times the size of this and you are able to purchase goods here at a

price that will astonish you.



    The business firms of Rockham:



State Bank of Rockham.

J. P. Smith, furniture and undertaking.

Wolter Bros., general merchandise.

W. D. Hudkins, land office.

T. G. Irwin, meat market.

A. D. Irwin, stock buyer.

Hagman, Moore & Co., general merchandise.

Farmers State Bank of Rockham.

The Rockham House.

R. L. Dean, hardware and farm machinery.

Rockham Telephone Exchange.

The Rockham Record, L. E. Howard, editor.

F. A. Grabinski, land office.

D. H. Lynde, land office and insurance.

C. A. Smith, drugs and stationery.

C. A. Buss, general merchandise and post office.

The Hammond House, J. L. Hammond, proprietor.

City livery and horse exchange.

Shoe shop, Wm. Kissner.

Dray line, C. W. Miller, proprietor.

Express and telegraph office, R. M. Walker, agent.

Atlas Lumber Co., Ed. Kolegraff, agent.

Blain Lumber Co., W. H, Blevins, agent.

Atlas Elevator Co., G. A. Buss, agent.

Sleepy Eye Milling Co., C. W. Wolcott, agent.

Eagle Roller Mills, Ed. Mack, agent.

Billard hall and barber shop, P. J. Hand, proprietor.

New barber shop, A. L. Card, proprietor.

Blacksmith shop, Severance & Son, proprietor.

Millinery, Mrs. F. Severance.

Cement block factory, A. C. Levtzow.

Plaster and Stone mason, Henry Levtzow.

Physician and surgeon, Dr. H. J. Seeman.





Additional Comments:
From:



HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9





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