Rockford is an unincorporated community in Redding Township, Jackson County, Indiana.

The village is approximately 1 mile west of Tipton Island along the White River.

[3] It was known as a pork packing center and had several established businesses such as a grist mill, post office, Masonic Lodge and a newspaper.

He was persuaded to move to nearby Seymour, Indiana by the town's founder, Meedy Shields, where he published under the name Seymour Times.1 Meedy Shields, through skillful maneuvering, succeeded in getting a new east-west rail stop of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad two miles south of Rockford, which spelled eventual economic doom.

[4] See wiki's Reno Gang page for external links which describe the eventual demise and criminal activity in and around Rockford in the 1860s.