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/rɑk ˈaɪlənd/ Listen

Rock Island

noun

A town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War.

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"Rock Island" Quotes from Famous Books

... them down the face of the cliff fronting L'Etac, the great rock island that was once a part ...

— Pearl of Pearl Island • John Oxenham

... characters was just suited to the restless, eager temperament of the Camdenites, and they entered into it with heart and soul, ransacking boxes and barrels and worm-eaten chests, scouring the country far and near and even sending as far as Davenport and Rock Island for the necessary costumes. Andy himself had been asked by Harry Clifford to lend his Sunday suit, that young scamp intending to personate some raw New England Yankee; and that was how Mrs. Markham, senior, first came to ...

— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes

... Actually railway-building was the most significant of all, and railroad stocks were far and away the most valuable and important on every exchange in America. Here in Philadelphia, New York Central, Rock Island, Wabash, Central Pacific, St. Paul, Hannibal & St. Joseph, Union Pacific, and Ohio & Mississippi were freely traded in. There were men who were getting rich and famous out of handling these things; and such towering figures as Cornelius ...

— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

... pleasant and bright. At 10 o'clock we passed a rock island, on the right shore of the river, which the Indians use as a burial ground; and halting for a short time, about an hour afterwards, at the village of our Indian friends, early in the afternoon we ...

— The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California • Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont

Words linked to "Rock Island" : il, Prairie State, Illinois, town, Land of Lincoln