A large stone house was built on the west bank (near Stoughton) by David Tidball.

The evidence

• “Stoughton. On the west bank a large stone house was built in 1852 by David Tidball. As soon as finished, the upper story was rented by Nelson Finney.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 164 / book p. 671

  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.

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