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Roopsburg
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, John B. Linn, p 258
"The erection of forge-mill, etc., by Daniel Turner on Spring Creek, near Roopsburg, is referred to in the general history under the year 1795.
Jacob Roop gave the name to the hamlet about 1825, when he settled there and followed the gunsmith trade. In 1826 he put up a clover-mill and erected a small brewery. The property finally fell into the hands of Henry Brockerhoff, who sold in 1857 the brewery to Louis Haas, who still lives there engaged in brewing.
In 1862, Henry Brockerhoff erected upon Spring Creek, at Roopsburg, a fine three-story stone mill, furnished with four runs of stones, and having a daily capacity of seventy-five barrels of flour. The mill is now carried on by his sons, and does a flourishing business in both merchant and custom work."
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