A resolution was passed at a meeting of the Board to build a new schoolhouse in Beloit School District No. 2.

The evidence

• “On November 9, 1849, notice was given to the legal voters that the Town Superintendent had.formed a new district, consisting of Sections 22, 27 and 34, and those parts of Sections 23, 26 and 35 situated west of Rock River, to be known as School District No 2, and on February 4, 1850, it was resolved at a meeting of the Board to build a new schoolhouse which would be more in keeping with the increased importance of the district. Measures were at once taken to secure the erection of the building, and during that year it was completed, at a cost qf about $2,000.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/15-rock-county-ch09-beloit.md, PDF p. 624 / book p. 628

  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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