The earliest settlers of Janesville pitched their camp and erected their first log cabin opposite the "big rock."

The evidence

• “The earliest settlers of Janesville pitched their camp and erected their first log cabin in October, 1835, opposite the "big rock" near the southern end of the bridge connecting Monterey with the Spring Brook portion of the city. The first school was established in 1838 in the log sehoolhouse on the property of Mr, Abram C.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/12-janesville-schools.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 280 / book p. 257

  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