A separate postoffice building was built, with Mr. Bastian as postmaster.

The evidence

• “Brown filled it up with logs and about a thousand loads of gravel and on the land thns made built a row of small store buildings, facing the new bridge street and extending to the bridge, among them our first separate postoffice building, Mr. Bastian postmaster, 1852.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 173 / book p. 156

  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.

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