The Beloit fire department began

The evidence

• “Our Beloit fire department really began in 1854. The business center was then E.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 193 / book p. 175

  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