Due to the COVID-19 virus the Sunday, May 17, 2020, Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society has cancelled its program on President and General U. S. Grant. Both museums are closed until permission is given to reopen. Contact the Curator at 815-622-6215.
The organization’s newsletter included insightful articles from the Sterling Daily Gazette about the 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic, that ravaged the world just over 100 years ago. Research was gathered by Sandra Miller and the Whiteside County Genealogists.
The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. Lasting from spring 1918 through spring or early summer 1919, it infected 500 million people, about a third of the world’s population at the time.
