August 1837

The Goodhue party came to Beloit and built the first store block

Meanwhile, closer to home

PropertySpring 1837Season

Thibault sold his log cabin to Crane and Bicknell and removed with his family to Lake Koshkonong

PropertySpring 1837Season

Water was let into the Blodgett/Goodhue mill race

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BeloitAugust 1837

The Goodhue party came to Beloit and built the first store block

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then to Roekford, 111., where his father and uncle had made investments, and thence in August, 1837, came with them to Beloit, where they built the first store block, and William, as clerk, sold the first yard of calico ever offered in Beloit. In Beloit the Goodhues built (with Blodgett) a sawmill and soon after a framed flouring mill, just west of it on the race, the first built in the then territory of Wisconsin. During the panic of 1837 they permitted their Chicago property, located as they said in a mudhole, to be sold for taxes.

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.Vol. 1, PDF p. 177 / book p. 160

1837 / August

BeloitA

August 1837

The Goodhue party came to Beloit and built the first store block

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The evidence

BeloitAugust 1837

The Goodhue party came to Beloit and built the first store block

A 1 independent source

1AQuotation found on a page of our own sources

then to Roekford, 111., where his father and uncle had made investments, and thence in August, 1837, came with them to Beloit, where they built the first store block, and William, as clerk, sold the first yard of calico ever offered in Beloit. In Beloit the Goodhues built (with Blodgett) a sawmill and soon after a framed flouring mill, just west of it on the race, the first built in the then territory of Wisconsin. During the panic of 1837 they permitted their Chicago property, located as they said in a mudhole, to be sold for taxes.