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Post date / 2016 / February
- A history plaque from my 2005 tour of the Tinker Cottage.
- A Nelson knitting machine in the Tinker museum
- A Nelson Knitting machine on display in the Tinker Cottage.
- A Nelson Knitting machine on display in the Tinker Cottage. The Nelson factory is(abandoned) on the Tinker property.
- A restored victorian house next to the Rockford Brewery property
- A Rockford Illinois park
- A Tinker Swiss Cottage postcard from 1915.
- A very nice looking vintage 1870 s house next to the Rockford Brewery
- A view from the Rockford Brewery property in 2013
- A visit to the Tinker Swiss Cottage in 2010
- A Woodward Water Wheel Governor Price List bulletin from April 14, 1937.
- Across the river from the cottage
- Amos Woodward s bicycle repairing ad Ca 1881
- An 1908 postcard looking across the Tinker property at the train station that was torn down many years ago.
- An 1957 picture of the Tinker Cottage showing the original wire rope bridge.