The name of the settlement was changed from Waterloo to Shopiere by Governor Harvey.

The evidence

• “The rest of the company, seeing their captain fall, hastily retreated, leaving to the enemy one fork, three rakes, a pail of Johnnie cake and cold potatoes, and a jug of whisky. That field of battle was henceforth known as "Waterloo" until 1850, when Governor Harvey changed the name to Shopiere, French for "limestone." The location abounds in that, and it is said that the bottom of Turtle creek in some places is a limestone ledge.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 204 / book p. 708

  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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