Gullik Olsen Gravdal set his claim stake on the southeast quarter of Sec. 1, Town 1 north, Range 11 East; the next day Gisle Sebjornson Hallan set his claim stake nearby.

The evidence

• “Good water, stone and timber for buildings, meadow for hay, and the rich prairie ready for the plow. Here Gullik Olsen Gravdal set his claim stake in the early part of October, 1839, on the southeast quarter of Sec. 1, Town 1, north Eange 11 East. The next day they explored the country roundabout and, following the edge of the woods to the east for about a mile, Gisle Sebjornson Hallan found a place that had all the necessaries for a pioneer's home, water, wood, meadow and prairie, and Gisle 's claim stake went do\\Ti in the northeast quarter of Sec. 6, Town 1, north of Eange 12 East.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/18-scandinavians.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 458 / book p. 424

  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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