The chronology
The land through time
Every documented event, from the property outward: Beloit, Rock County, the region and the world. Each one links to the page of the source that records it. The record so far covers 1820–1864; more years are being added.
1834
The property
Rock County
The region
- 1834 Government Surveyors described the Winnebago village site of Tay-e-hee-dah as the "ruins of an old Indian village."
- 1834 By 1834, 4,591 Winnebagoes had settled north of the Wisconsin river, unwilling to cross the Mississippi to their new Iowa reservation.
- September 6, 1834 The legislative council of Michigan Territory created Milwaukee county out of the southern portion of Brown county; the village of Milwaukee was made the county seat.
Nation and world
- June 26, 1834 Congress approved an act creating additional land districts, establishing the Wisconsin and Green Bay land districts in the Territory of Michigan.
- June 28, 1834 Congress attached the country west of the Mississippi river and north of the State of Missouri to the Territory of Michigan for temporary judicial purposes.
- 1834 Congress greatly increased the limits of the Territory of Michigan for judicial purposes by adding a large extent of country west of the Mississippi.