Wisconsin City was surveyed by Inman, Breese and Shepherd, and a number of settlers started the new Wisconsin City on the west bank of the river below Janesville.

The evidence

• “Its corner and water lots have made no small figure in Wall street ; its lithographed city plats have been honored with a conspicuous place in all the great land-agency ofiices of the country. At one time, this town could boast of four cities and villages — ' Wisconsin City,' ' Koshkonong City,' ' Rockport,' ' Monterey ' and ' Afton.' Rockport was laid out by Thomas Holmes in December, 1835, and was the first surveyed village (or city) in the county. ' Wisconsin City ' was surveyed by Inman, Breese and Shepherd, in 1836 ; ' City of Koshkonong,' in the summer of the same year, by Kenzie, Hunter and Booby; ' Monterey,' by Ira Miltimore, in 1850. By an act of the Legislature of Wisconsin, approved March 19, 1853, the city of Janesville was incorporated, and, by its charter, Sections 1 and 2 of the town of Rock were brought within its limits.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/13-rock-county-ch07-town-histories.md, PDF p. 522 / book p. 526

  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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• “During this year of 1836 a number of settlers started the new Wisconsin City; this was on the west bank of the river below Janesville, and was at the foot of the rapids below the big rock, w^hich they thought would retard the growth of Janesville; at that time they expected the future travel to come by water, and thought the rapids would be mostly insurmountable. This was not so, for in June a steamboat arrived coming from the Mississippi river; it passed up over the rapids and stopped some time at Janesville, finally returning to the Mississippi.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 14 / book p. 529

  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