Ancient works on the Beloit college grounds were surveyed by Prof. S.

The evidence

• “A few unimportant works have been seen, however, on some of the tributaries of that river. In Beloit, on the college grounds, some ancient works were surveyed in 1852, by Prof. S.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/08-rock-county-ch02-mounds-indians-black-hawk-settlement.md, PDF p. 319 / book p. 323

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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

  

• “, in large part because it is one of the only colleges in the country to have actual Native American burial mounds on its campus. Scattered across the campus lawns, these ancient features are an indelible part of the collective memory of living at Beloit. They also have a great deal more to teach us. Though a few of the mounds were lost to college construction, most have survived because Beloit was early to adopt archaeological preservation. In 1852, Stephen Lathrop, the college’s first science professor, mapped the mounds for the first time. In 1857, the Reverend Ralph Emerson donated $100 towards the restoration of an excavated site. The mounds were used as interactive classrooms in the mid-20th century, and in 1960, radiocarbon dating revealed that the artifacts date from as far back as 500 A.D. In the mid-1980s, Wisconsin enacted a state law that protects Native American mounds as human burial sites, placing restrictions on where and how they could be examined. Yet interest in”

  https://www.beloit.edu/live/news/2262-campus-archaeology

  beloit.edu, https://www.beloit.edu/live/news/2262-campus-archaeology

  Grade B: Found on an institutional web page