May 1907

The writers visited the mound locality and found the thicket cleared away and some large trees cut down; the twenty acres had been turned into pasture.

Meanwhile, closer to home

BeloitApril 1, 1907

Roy F. Wright was elected cashier, succeeding Wirt Wright.

BeloitJune 1, 1907

Ingersoll and Hanna sold the paper to the Free Press Publishing Company; Hanna retired from business in June 1907.

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The evidence

The regionMay 1907

The writers visited the mound locality and found the thicket cleared away and some large trees cut down; the twenty acres had been turned into pasture.

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could neither see nor push, and all that we could find were two small ridges not far from the highway, that we concluded were windfalls, covered by an accumulation of earth and sod. We gave no further attention to this locality until May, 1907, when we found the thicket cleared away and some of the large trees cut down, and the twenty acres upon which the mounds are located turned into pasture, except that three of the mounds and portions of three others lie outside the pasture fence upon open tilled ground.

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.Vol. 1, PDF p. 72 / book p. 62

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May 1907

The writers visited the mound locality and found the thicket cleared away and some large trees cut down; the twenty acres had been turned into pasture.

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The evidence

The regionMay 1907

The writers visited the mound locality and found the thicket cleared away and some large trees cut down; the twenty acres had been turned into pasture.

A 1 independent source

1AQuotation found on a page of our own sources

could neither see nor push, and all that we could find were two small ridges not far from the highway, that we concluded were windfalls, covered by an accumulation of earth and sod. We gave no further attention to this locality until May, 1907, when we found the thicket cleared away and some of the large trees cut down, and the twenty acres upon which the mounds are located turned into pasture, except that three of the mounds and portions of three others lie outside the pasture fence upon open tilled ground.