Muscatine County Freedom Rock Project

12/17/2024

Just a few more days left to get your order in for an engraved paver for your favorite service veteran. Don't miss out! Give us a call!

12/17/2024

Just a few days left for taking orders for your favorite veteran engraved paver. Installation of the pavers will be in the spring / early summer of 2025. Don't miss out! Give us a call!

07/15/2024

Founder's Day is just a short month away. And if you have an antique tractor and want to spend a lazy afternoon showing it off to the town folk of Wilton, bring it on down to the Freedom Rock Saturday Afternoon - This is the 2nd annual Antique Tractor Parade and Show (you can run it in the Founder's Day Parade if you want and think it can make it the whole route!) and we'd love to see the painted up tractors and the work clothes tractors. Prizes will be awarded for best Restored Tractor...Best Unrestored Tractor..and most unusual Tractor entry. We look forward to seeing you there!

05/30/2024

If you attended the Memorial Day Smorgasbord at the Freedom Rock on Monday, here's a link to the Muscatine County Freedom Rock website - you'll find some previous photos of the actual construction of the site at the top of the scroll and then farther down, you'll see the photos taken on Monday of the fire department water fights, the raffle winners, the hot dog servers. Thanks to everyone for coming out and we look forward to next year's Freedom Rock Smorgasbord Block Party!

Triple B beginning the dig for the foundation of the Muscatine County Freedom Rock

05/23/2024

We had fun on the Wilton Wednesday show yesterday as we caught up with Kelsie Stafford, Wilton's director of Parks and Recreation. If you missed it, here's the link to the full show without commercial interruption!
https://reflect-media-tree.cablecast.tv/.../14172.../vod.mp4

05/04/2024

In case you've been listening to the oncoming hoof beats, there's going to be a Freedom Rock Memorial Day Smorgasbord on May 27th starting at 3 pm. 25 cent hotdogs and chips, fire department water battles, and the Freedom Rock itself. A big raffle of prizes will be announced at 5 pm. Tickets are 5 dollars each and you can't win if you don't buy a ticket!

Also, we're going to launch another offering of engraved pavers for veterans of all services. A great tribute to a friend or family member. These pavers will join the over 700 pavers already in place at the Muscatine County Freedom Rock.

We need to hit a total of 50 pavers before we can release the order to the engraver. We would hope to have that number reached by the end of June so we could possibly have the outside chance of getting them installed yet this year. Barring that circumstance, we'd look for an early summer 2025 installation.

So don't delay! Come to the Smorgasbord to get your order form or print the one out here and drop it off at the Wilton City Hall or give me a call and we'll figure out what to do.

The Freedom Rock...a unique Iowa experience!

09/24/2022

The 56 pavers were installed at the Muscatine County Freedom Rock this past week. There are now more than 700 engraved pavers at the site. Come on out and have a look see!

10/01/2021

If you've been meaning to stop by and visit the Muscatine County Freedom Rock site in downtown Wilton, but just haven't had a chance for whatever reason, maybe we can entice you to jump in the car and come on by and take a look for yourself.

In support of our effort to install another 100 engraved pavers, we'll be installing a donation / information box soon. So if you're so inclined, you can donate to the Freedom Rock Site fund or leave us your information if you'd like an engraved paver for your favorite veteran and we'll contact you.

Still some good weather left, so come on by!

A video tour of the Muscatine County Freedom Rock located in downtown Wilton, Iowa. This site is one of what will be 99 Freedom Rock sites in the state of I...

09/18/2021

It's now official. We've had several inquiries about how to get an engraved paver for your favorite Muscatine County veteran, so we've embarked on "The Next 100" engraved paver program for the Muscatine County Freedom Rock site.

We're taking pre-orders at this time and when we reach the magic 100 mark, we'll reach out to the requestors for the paver text information they want and also payment for the size of paver they would order.

We attached the paver order form that can be used to select size, fill out text and send it back to us at the address shown on the form and we'll keep it on file until we reach the 100 paver level.

If you need more information or want to know there's a person behind these posts, email us at [email protected] or give us a call at 563-554-4750 - we'd be glad to run through it with you. It's going to be cold soon so we won't have much to do except watch Wheel of Fortune and A-Team reruns.

If all goes well with this effort, we would plan on celebrating the installation of "The Next 100" at the annual Freedom Rock Smorgasbord down at the Freedom Rock site in downtown Wilton, Iowa.

So try and print out the form, or email us and we'll send you one. It's a great place to be a part of!

09/16/2021

Thank you to everyone that came on on Labor Day to help us honor our veterans of Muscatine County and celebrate the additional installation of 107 more engraved pavers. At the same time, we revived an old Wilton tradition of a 10 cent smorgasbord...well, we charged 25 cents - inflation, you know.

We had around 350 to 400 people show up for the party and the great pulled pork sandwiches while the weather was absolutely perfect.

Thanks to our sponsors for donating raffle prizes or dollars or food to help us put on the event. HyVee, WalMart, Jeff's Markets, Midwest Grill Supply, Menard's, Farm and Fleet, the Wilton Candy Kitchen and several individuals who donated time, effort and money to the event. We think it went so well we're going to do it again next Labor Day - so mark your 2022 calendars when you get them!

The event netted about $ 3,300.00 to the Freedom Rock maintenance fund. That money will allow us to continue improving the site, make needed repairs, cleanings, etc. that inevitably come up with maintaining the memorial site.

Also, what we have decided to do as there seems to be a demand for it - we're going to collect information for another round of engraved pavers. If you have been to the site and you're from Muscatine County or you have relatives or friends that were from Muscatine County and served in our armed forces and you'd like to see their name memorialized at the site, use the form attached here or email us with your information. If we get 100 requests for pavers, we'll fire up the order machine and get back to you for paver text information and payment method, and we'll do it again next year.

Here's the address to send your information to:
Ted Marolf - PO Box 283 - Wilton, IA. 52778

Make sure you include your phone # and email if you have it.

We've attached some photos from the September 6 Labor Day event for your review.

Thanks again to everybody who came out and helped us celebrate and honor our veterans. A great way to end the summer!

08/31/2021

The countdown proceeds - Tminus 6 days and counting to the Freedom Rock Smorgasbord in Downtown Wilton - Labor Day Monday, September 6th!

Some really great prizes to give away - so don't miss out on a great summer ending party that honors the veterans and the completion of the Muscatine County Freedom Rock.

Still a limited amount of raffle tickets left - great chance at winning one of the great prizes - 65" TV, a gravity feed barbecue, a mini bike, a power mower, a power washer, a generator, two rounds of golf and a hotel stay at Riverside Casino, an authentic NFL Green Bay Packer helmet autographed by a dozen or so retired Packer players!

We'll be selling raffle tickets up until 15 minutes before the drawing, so don't get shut out! Get yours now at White Pigeon Insurance, Brammeier's Service Station, the Wilton Candy Kitchen, or at the City Hall. Or if you see me at the post office, hit me up - I have a few in the car!

See you Monday!