VIEW ON ROCK RIVER.




ROCK, COUNTY, WISCONSIN.



HE story of the nation for 200 years is the story of Rock county for sixty.
There
have been the same changes, albeit, swifter and with less delay between the
different



          stages. Indian hunting ground has changed to battlefield; battlefield
has smiled and
blossomed under the pioneer's plow, and, in turn, the pioneer's cabin has
been replaced by the
factory, the mill and the comforts of city life-all within the memory of
man. In large part,

this quickness of development must be laid to favorable location. Setting
aside minor details,
Wisconsin presents two general slopes-a short, abrupt declivity to Lake Superior
and a long,
gentler incline southward. Through the center of this southward slope there
extends a moderate
south and north elevation or arch-a low anti-clinal axis-giving a southeasterly
and southwest-
erly inclination to the strata on either side.