This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ADAMS, STURGIS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.604.1 Message Board Post: The only ADAMS mentioned in the booklet is Erasmus Adams. "That fall, Erasmus Adams and family came and built a cabin in the woods on Dry Run. Attracted no doubt by the springs at that point which from time immemorial have poured forth a never failing supply of pure cold water. Both Sturgis and Adams broke up small farms and Sturgis Falls was born. Later the name was changed to Cedar Falls. Just as it takes two points to make a straight line so it took two families to make a town. By late fall there were five families comprising fourteen people in Black Hawk county."