Thomas Holmes came to Janesville for a while and located south of the river.

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• “entered land on the west side of the river, laid out the village of Rockport, which now constitutes a portion of the city of Janesville. Thomas Holmes was the oldest son of Judge William Holmes, and never was a resident of Janesville, though he came here for a while in 1836 and located south of the river where the Bailey farm now is; he only staid a short time, when he started to cross the plains of the Indians, with whom he was very friendly, and a number of whose languages he spoke.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 12 / book p. 527

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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