A church (organization) dates from the spring of 1856 (passage fragment; its building was erected in 1858).

The evidence

• “church in the spring of 1856. According to resolutions passed at a meeting held April 7, 1858, a church building was erected during the summer of this year, costing about $1,700.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 134 / book p. 643

  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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