The close of the year 1837 saw the end of the boom in Rock County speculative towns, villages and cities.

The evidence

• “The close of the year 1837 saw the end of the boom in Rock county speculative towns, villages and cities, and with the col-”

  1908-brown-rock-county/04-forgotten-places.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 66 / book p. 56

  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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