This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/2356 Message Board Post: Rockingham was not consumed by Davenport as many people today believe. At least not geographically. The former town of Rockingham was plotted in section 8 of the Rockingham township on what is now Wappelo Avenue and still well outside of Davenport. Undoubtedly the source of the confusion regarding Rockingham's whereabouts is the name 'Rockingham Road' which is one of western Davenport's most prominent streets. Many people mistakenly believe that some portion of Rockingham Road was actually the town of Rockingham whereas its true location is actually located between Highway 22 and South Concord Street and divided by Wapello Avenue. I believe only one building remains on the site. As late as the early 1980's it served as a tavern and has since been remodeled as a house. I'm still not sure if it was one of Rockingham's original structures. A nearby junkyard presently commands what may have been a portion of the original town. Along the southern end of the junkyard, nestled in some trees alongside South Concord Street, was a very old wood frame house which may have also been considered as part of the town. It could still be there as it was just a few years back albeit on the verge of collapse. Before Davenport won the election against Rockingham for county seat by two votes, Rockingham outnumbered Davenport in both population and businesses. The city may have reached its peak population in 1838 with about 43 homes and several business including a large, popular hotel. By 1882 only four or five buildings remained. Looking at the site today, its only suspicious quality is the lack of trees in an otherwise heavily wooded area which does indeed suggest development at one time. I've exhausted all Rockingham resources online and still know little of the town. I have also yet to see one picture of it in its heydey, when it was said that "no village in the far West at that day could boast of a better class of citizens, or those of whom she could be more proud, than Rockingham, both on account of their high-toned moral character, their social and friendly qualities, and for their kind and liberal attention to the sick and to the stranger." Anyone with information regarding the old town of Rockingham is welcome to email me.