A meeting of railroad commissioners was noticed in the Beloit Journal.

The evidence

• “This much having been done, the people were not disposed to waste time in the matter, as is evident from the following from the Beloit Journal of September 28, 1848 :”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/10-rock-county-ch04-early-maps-courts-railroads.md, PDF p. 378 / book p. 382

  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.

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