A bank removed to a two-story frame building on the northwest corner of Main and Milwaukee streets in Janesville.

The evidence

• “frame building at the east end of Milwaukee street bridge on the spot where the Rock County National bank has been located for many years, removing thence to a two-story frame building on the northwest corner of Main and Milwaukee streets in February, 1857. After temporary occupancy in the Myers House block, this bank in 1851 moved into permanent quarters in the new Jackman block, where the Rock County bank and its successor, the Rock County National bank, has continued to the present day.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/22-janesville-banking.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 521 / book p. 483

  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