The Murray block in Beloit burned

The evidence

• “Murray block (S. W. corner of Turtle and Race streets) burned on the morning of April 6, 1854, Mr. Carpenter hastily placed his money and valuable papers in a wooden box and hid it under his front sidewalk.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/23-beloit-banking.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 526 / book p. 487

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources