Editing Rock Springs, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
[[File:VanHiseRock1.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Van Hise Rock]]
At the time of its founding, Rock Springs was known as '''Ableman''', after Stephen Van Rensselaer Ableman,<ref>{{cite book|last=Cole|first=Harry Ellsworth|title=A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PV40AQAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PV40AQAAMAAJ/page/n440 405]}}</ref> who settled there in 1851.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1905|pages=[https://archive.org/details/origincertainpl00ganngoog/page/n28 22]|author=Gannett, Henry|url=https://archive.org/details/origincertainpl00ganngoog}}</ref> The railroad has been a major influence on the village's growth.

Surrounded by cliffs of [[Baraboo Quartzite]], the village is two miles south of a notable rock formation located in [[Ableman Gorge]], [[Van Hise Rock]], which was used to explain the processes of [[structural geology]] by [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] professor [[Charles R. Van Hise]].