The first wooden bridge across the river at "this place" was built by private subscription.

The evidence

• “The first wooden bridge across the river at this place was built by private subscription in 1846. The bridge now spanning Eock river at this place is a fine bent iron bridge, built in 1896. at a cost of nearly $10,000, the county paying a certain per cent of the cost.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 164 / book p. 671

  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