Judge William Holmes and family arrived in the Rock River valley; they stopped at Thibault's cabin at Beloit — the first recorded visit of white women.

The evidence

• “In the same month of July, 1835, soon after their departure, Joseph Thibault fprouounced Tebo) came here, and his log cabin was our first building. At this cabin, as they passed through the place on March 9, 1836, in a lumber wagon, on their way to the present site of Janesville, early in the evening, the family of Judge William Holmes, including two women and two girls, stopped a few minutes to warm up. That was the first recorded visit of white women.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 145 / book p. 130

  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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