Long before the automobile came into existence, even before the light running buggy was a common sight on country roads, a store was established at the location later known as Waltersburg. Mr. John Kuhl did an extensive general store business for several years in a log building and in the 70's erected a commodious two-story brick building, which still stands, although long since abandoned as a store. In conjunction with that store were large potato cellars and a big tobacco warehouse, both bygones, these many years.
In 1877-78 a second store was built at the village and opened up in the name of Walter Brothers. On June 12th, 1878, a post office was established at Waltersburg and the village became a place on the map. Mr. A. W. Walter, Sr., was the first and only postmaster, holding the place, uncontested until the discontinuance of the office, Nov. 30th 1917. Walter Brothers did a thriving business in the building as first constructed, but in the early 90's doubled the floor space and greatly enlarged their stock of goods. In the meantime cooper shops were built, one by Ben meyer, one by Walter Brothers, where barrels were made in which sorghum, potatoes, brans, etc. were shipped to various markets. A blacksmith shop, first owned by Geo. Gebauer, later by Elias Sinn and still owned and operated by Fred Gebauer, became an institution in the community. A wagon shop, where vehicles, wagons, harrows, etc., were manufactured, was run for several years by Mr. Horace Leonard, later to be converted into a carpenter shop, run by John Hanna. A shoe shop, built and operated by Fred Volle, later became a barber shop, run by George Estes, but time and changing evnts have erased almost the memory, even of the old shoe shop where township and road elections rife with small country intensity of interest, were held annually. The old wagon shop long since has disappeared and the old blacksmith shop, under the spreading locust trees, was long ago replaced by a more up-to-date, new shop, which is, itself, beginning ti show the marks of the year.
The boys who used to gather there to pitch horse shoes or dollars and wait for the mail hack to come so they could "get the Herald" and the weekly Globe-Democratic or Toledo Blade, have scattered to the four winds_ and be it said with honor _no ill report of any Waltersburg community lad ever bore back along the breezes.
Waltersburg was always a center of fine, loyal, old-fashioned, honest people, such as made Pope county known afar for its "quality folks."
Waltersburg Church, the Immanuel German M. E. Church, as it was known for years was the center of county Sunday School activity, many county Sunday School conventions being held there. That church, although now English, as it has been for years, is one of the oldest in the county, and has held its stated services unbroken for three-quarters of a century.
Waltersburg school, once one of the honor schools of the country-side, turned out more school teachers from 1880 to 1900 than any other school in the county, and its pupils are successful and prosperous farmers and doctors, lawyers and teachers, business men and preachers, lending honor to the name of Pope county in the innumerable communities to which they have gone.
It was the Waltersburg folks who first formed a home mutual insurance company in the county. That company still exists and has covered property with safe insurance throughout more than a generation, paying thousands of dollars of losses without a quiver. It was Waltersburg folks who founded the first rural telephone company in the county, and tied up with Simpson and Vienna and the outside world when the thing seemed impossible, as a dream. That telephone company, although changed in name and office, still operates.
Waltersburg has always been in the foreground on road activities in the county. Long before the days of the hard roads the Waltersburg road district was the pride of the county for well-graded, well-kept country roads, although such roads as these seemed good, would now be impassable, at any rate, the road district bought new type graders and a limestone crusher, operated by a steam engine, and essayed to pull themselves out of the mire. And when Route 146 was in the making, Waltersburg was still anxious for good roads, to the end it is still on the map. The latest road movement is a Cemetery Hill road, now in constrction, boasted by a loyal bunch at home and backed by some of the old-timers away from home, whose hearts still homeward turn, and that road too will add another line to the record of Waltersburg community loyalty.
Waltersburg writes its past history through the records of such men as John Kuhl, Adolph and Henry Walter, Sr., Elias Sinn, Ben Meyer, Fred Volle, Daniel Walter, N. D. Walter, George C. Walter, Christian Walter, John L. Walter, Henry Voslow, the Blatters, Schoettles, Mankins, Hertters, Coopers, Werners, Moyers, Halls, Hannas and on to an innumerable list -and its story is still in the writing.
The story of a worthwhile community never ends. The long silence of the night, broken perhaps by the song of a mockingbird in his aria to the moolit stilness, or the ringing of a church bell, its tones dying away in uninterrupted distances, or yet again, it may be a neighborly call across lots of some friendly voice, or perchance just the smell of a rose arbor or the crackle of an evening fire, or the rumble of a distant wagon, or the muffled sound of an old house closed against the rain _ anyone of these things wakens within us sacred boyhood memories. Again we see the little old home village and feel a friendly tug at our heart that makes us glad we once lived at Waltersburg.

Copied from Trampe's Pope County Historical Review. Date for the clipped newspaper is estimated at 1934. ( No date was given in the book)
Today there is only a few residences in the Waltersburg area located on State Route 146 and the graveled county road, Waltersburg Road, and it ends at State Route 145 near Glendale. That is, if you do not take the wrong bend in the road. One of those left bends would take you to the Rock Community. That road marker would read as, Mt. Zion Cemetery.