The small town atmosphere is a great place to live and safely raise your children. Andalusia is located in one of the area's finest school districts-Rockridge Community School District whose philosophy is to develop the youth into educated and active citizens.
The School Board's objective is to provide an educational environment which will allow for the individual interests and needs of the students as well as being sensitive to the parents demands and expectations. Andalusia is also a volunteer community. The ambulance service and fire department function solely on the dedication of many fine volunteers.
They provide these services with the highest degree of training available and work with surrounding communities to provide the protection needed. A few years ago, Andalusia chose to eliminate the locally hired police department and employ the services of the Rock Island County Sheriff's Dept. The Andalusia Substation as it is now known, is home for a full time Sheriff's Deputy s with the support of the entire County Sheriff's Dept.
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He established a ferry and it became the most important one on the river above St. The course of immigration westward was increasing rapidly. Also, it was a good crossing as the approaches were free from any marshy areas, and gradually ascending to the valley and shore.
The second cabin was built by Hackley Sams at the mineral springs. Then John Vanatta built on his land east of the village. Jonathan Mosher had a farm east of the Vanatta land, and James Robison also settled on land near the south west township line. These farms were the first in cultivation below the Rock River. The early settlers had few luxuries except venison, wild turkey, quails, prairie hens, ducks and other game.
They fished in the streams and river and picked crab apples, wild plums, and berries, and gathered honey. They had to go great distances to get milling done, by ox teams over unimproved roads.
It took from one to three weeks to complete the trips, as very often, other parties were waiting there to get their grinding done. In , Jonathan Buffum built a log grist mill, 16 by 20 feet, on Fancy Creek. It stood about 40 rods north of Andalusia Road, leading east from the village.
This was the first mill built in this neighborhood. It contained a bolt for the manufacture of flour, and the run of stone previously used by Joseph Dunlap, in Edgington. The mills were constructed in a very primitive manner, and its capacity for grinding was about 50 bushels of corn or wheat or buckwheat per day.
No toll was taken; the patrons of the mill hitched their horses to the mill to do the grinding. In the winter, people brought grists to this mill from the Iowa side of the river, when they could then cross on the ice.
With the building of towns on opposite shores, Andalusia and Buffalo, Iowa, the name Clark's Ferry became obsolete. However, there was continuous ferry traffic since Clark piloted a flat boat with long sweeps and pike poles.
Later boats were propelled by horse power, by steam and gasoline. Clark moved to Buffalo in , after selling his Illinois claim to Col. Stevenson, S. Hamilton, and Sam Whiteside. They platted a city called "Rockport". It was wholly a city on paper and represented a tract of land having about a mile and a half of river front, and a mile in width.
It was a great speculation, in which many senators. Calhoun, Gen.
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