Colonel Culver and his two sons came to Janesville (traveling on combined runners and wheels) and located their future home in the oak openings on the east bank of the Rock.

The evidence

• “Y. In the autumn of 1842 Colonel Culver and his two sons came to Janesville, on combined runners and wheels, and located their future home in the beautiful oak openings on the east bank of the Rock. Mrs.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/19-pioneer-women.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 493 / book p. 457

  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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