Solomon L. Harrington and Thomas Vanhorn located in the town of Lima and built a saw-mill on the west branch of Whitewater Creek; the 1856 history gives only "summer of 1837."

The evidence

• “Burgess.visited what is now the town of Lima and made a claim on Section 17, but as he never improved it, it is to be presumed it lapsed. He was followed in June, 1837, by Solomon L. Harrington and Thomas Vanhorn, who located and built a saw-mill on the west branch of Whitewater Creek in the east part of the town.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/13-rock-county-ch07-town-histories.md, PDF p. 510 / book p. 514

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources