Rockland, Power County, Idaho Genealogy

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City Hall
Rockland City Hall 135 South Main Street Rockland, ID 83271 208-548-2489‎

Current
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‎ Rockland Ward 405 E Shoeshone Rockland, ID 83271

(208) 548-2281

Historical
Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City or at its Family History Centers. Records of the Rockland Ward(1883-1948) are in this collections.

Directories
The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a collection of city, county, state and regional directories.

History
Rockland is in the center of an extensive farming district, about 15 miles south of American Falls, and 30 miles by roundabout road southwest of Pocatello. The gardens and farms are irrigated from Rock Creek and its tributaries, but so far dry farming has not proven much of a success. The total population of the Rockland Precinct was 730 in 1930.

Additional history of Rockland, Idaho and the early Mormon settlers there can be found in: Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 716.

Newspapers
Copies of issues of some newspapersin the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise may be of interest to residents of Rockland.