Aaron and Alfred Walker, the first white settlers in the town of Milton, pitched camp on the south side of Walker's Lake and erected the town's first log cabin; another passage gives the date as September 8, 1836.

The evidence

• “On the 1st day of September, 1836, Aaron and Alfred Walker, the first white settlers in the town of Milton, pitched their camp on the south side of a little lake, called Walker's Lake — which is now nearly dried up — on the northwest quarter of Section 36, where they still reside. They erected a little log cabin near the lake and lived in it during the winter of 1836-37. This was the first cabin built in the town, and was afterward used as the residence of the first Pastor in Milton, Rev.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/13-rock-county-ch07-town-histories.md, PDF p. 514 / book p. 518

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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