A little one-story brick schoolhouse was erected by the village (Janesville) on Division street — the first building erected by the public.

The evidence

• “During the year 1844 a little one-story brick schoolhouse was erected by the village on Division street near East Milwaukee street. This was the first building erected by the public.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 23 / book p. 537

  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