The two Churchill brothers returned to Vermont with glowing descriptions of the Rock River Valley.

The evidence

• “The two Churchills returned to Vermont in the summer of 1836, with glowing descriptions of the territory and its prospects and especially of the Rock River Valley, the garden of the world.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/01-introduction-and-family-background.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

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