The emerging settlement combined American agricultural colonization with commercial use of Turtle Creek.

The evidence

• “Beloit. In 1833, the Ho-Chunk ceded much of their traditional lands and Thibault unofficially laid claim to over 6,000 acres, including all of present-day Beloit. 12 In 1836, Vermont native Caleb Blodgett bought Thibault's claim, and he and his extended family became the first permanent residents of European descent in Beloit, which they called New Albany. Blodgett sold one-third of his property to Charles Goodhue in the fall of 1836, and the two immediately built a dam, a sawmill and a race on Turtle Creek. The sawmill was in" operation by the following spring. About the same time that Goodhue arrived, Dr. Horace White also passed through. Dr. White 11 Book of Beloit, (Beloit: Beloit Daily News Publishing Company, 1936), p. 5. 12 Book of Beloit II: 1836-1986, (Beloit: Beloit Daily News, 1986), p. 4. 2NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8-86) Wisconsin Word Processing Format (Approved 3/87) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Na”

  https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/03001128_text

  npgallery.nps.gov, https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/03001128_text

  Grade B: Found on an institutional web page