The village of Footville was surveyed and platted

The evidence

• “The village of Footville is in part situate in this town and partly in Plymouth, embracing portions of section 32 in Center, and sections 4 and 5 in' Plymouth. Was surveyed and platted in the fall of 1854, and is the present terminus of the Beloit and Madison railroad, and contains the stationhouse and fixtures, two warehouses, two lumber yards, two taverns, three stores, one grocery, two blacksmith shops, one wagon shop, one harness and shoe shop, one steam saw-mill unfinished, one post office, one physician, one chapel unfinished, one school-house, and probably sixty families. In the fell of 1853 there were seven families only.”

  1856-history-of-rock-county/08-center.md, PDF p. 97 / book p. 79

  Guernsey, Orrin, and Josiah F. Willard, editors. History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute. Janesville, Wis.: William M. Doty & Brother, 1856. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871593.

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