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Courthouse Hill Historic District
The Courthouse Hill Historic District is a 30-block area on the east side of Janesville, Wisconsin, containing many historic structures built from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s in various styles, including homes of many of Janesville's influential leaders from that period. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. With The first European-American settlers arrived in what would become Janesville in 1835, two years after the end of the Black Hawk War. The following year Janesville was designated the seat of Rock County. Lumber mills sprang up, and flour mills to grind the wheat produced in surrounding farmlands. In 1851 the first Wisconsin State Fair was held in the Courthouse Hill area. People initially built smaller frame houses in what would become the district, but these were eventually replaced by larger, more substantial structures. By 1860 seven homes that still exist in the district were already there. Here are some examples of differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janesville, Wisconsin
Janesville is a city in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. It is the county seat and largest city in the county. It is a principal municipality of the Janesville, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Madison–Janesville– Beloit, WI Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 65,615. History The area that became Janesville was the site of a Ho-Chunk village named (Round Rock) up to the time of Euro-American settlement. In the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, the United States recognized the portion of the present city that lies west of the Rock River as Ho-Chunk territory, while the area east of the river was recognized as Potawatomi land. Following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Black Hawk War of 1832, both nations were forced to surrender this land to the United States. American settlers John Inman, George Follmer, Joshua Holmes, and William Holmes, Jr. built a crude log cabin in the region in 1835 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
