Charles Stevens erected the Janesville Stage House, a new hotel.

The evidence

• “In the fall of 1838 Charles Stevens erected a new hotel on the site of the present Myers house, called the Janesville Stage house. Under his able management this tavern was long known as the best public house west of Lake Michigan.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 17 / book p. 532

  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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