The railroad to Monroe/Jan. 1858 completion; the C. & N.-W. track reached West Milton (Milton Junction), where the first house ("Bee Hive") was built by Peter McAdams and a village organization effort began.

The evidence

• “Notwithstanding the fact that the Prairie du Chien Railroad had for more than six years run its trains past what is now this populous little village, it was not until 1858, when the C. & N.-W. track became an established fact, that West Milton, as it was then called, began to show any signs of life. It is here that, as early as 1836, people, or more correctly speaking, one person, Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/16-rock-county-ch10-villages.md, PDF p. 684 / book p. 688

  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

  

• “Milton Junction. When, in 1858, the Chicago & Northwestern railroad was built through the section of Rock county, where Milton Junction now stands, crossing the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, forming a junction, the first attempt was made to organize there a village, an effort which was later carried to completion. It was in this year, 1858, that the first house was built by Peter McAdams; it was called the "Bee Hive" and stood where the Foster house now stands. In 1861 William J.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 169 / book p. 676

  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