A number of "forgotten" cities, villages and towns were laid out in what is now Rock County while there were but few actual settlers.

The evidence

• “Early in the year 1836, and while there were but few actual settlers in what is now Rock county, a number of cities, villages and towns were laid out that we may now call "the forgotten places," so absolutely have their names and locations passed away. What is now Rock county was then a part of Milwaukee and Racine counties, and no names had as yet been given to any of the townships; but for the purpose of more plainly designating the points where those now forgotten places were located we use the present names of the townships as well as the government designation of townships and ranges.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/04-forgotten-places.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 59 / book p. 49

  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