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.
1851
The property
Beloit
- March 10, 1851 The Beloit school board engaged Herman Belden (or Belding) to excavate the cellar for a new brick school house at nine cents per cubic yard.
- July 4, 1851 The school board contracted with Stephen Downer to lay up the walls of the new Beloit schoolhouse at $1.80 per yard.
- August 19, 1851 A loan of $1,500 at 10 per cent was obtained from Milton Harvey of Colebrook, N. H., for the Beloit school building.
- October 29, 1851 The late board of Union District No. 1 (Beloit) were complimented for having erected a school building with only half as much borrowed debt as authorized; the whole cost was $4,312.71.
Rock County
- January 6, 1851 The Rock County Agricultural Society (and Mechanics' Institute) was organized at a meeting of farmers and mechanics at the courthouse in Janesville.
- February 3, 1851 The second meeting of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute was held at the courthouse in Janesville.
- 1851 A man came to America in 1851, staying in New York until coming to Wisconsin in 1854; settled in Rock Co. in 1859.
- December 1851 A statement of Rock County assessed and equalized property values, tax rates, and delinquent county tax was published by order of the Board of Supervisors.
The region
- December 1851 The church (corner stone laid 1848) was occupied / first services were held in the building.
- January 8, 1851 The Oak Hill Cemetery Association was organized under an 1850 act of the Wisconsin legislature.
- January 8, 1851 The fourth session of the Wisconsin legislature commenced.
- March 1851 The Wisconsin State Agricultural Society was organized at a meeting in Madison on March 8, 1851.