LibGuides: Beloit and Vicinity: Histories

Books

History of Rock County Wisconsin
Call Number: 977.587 W525h

Publication Date: Chicago: Western Historical Co;, 1879

History of Rock County, Wisconsin - online
Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1879
History of Rock County, and transactions of the Rock County agricultural society and mechanics' institute.
Edited and compiled by Orrin Guernsey & Josiah F. Willard. Janesville, Wis., W. M. Doty and brother, printers, 1856.

Dear Ones: Letters of Ethel Bird
Ethel Bird, Beloit College class of 1905, wrote lively letters to her parents five times a week. Article by Diane Lichtenstein and Fred Burwell from Beloit College Magazine, Summer 2015.
Wisconsin Archeologist, vol. 9, October 1929
Indian Village and Camp Sites of the Lower Rock River in Wisconsin by Charles E. and Theodore T. Brown

On Hallowed Ground
Article on effigy mounds by William Green, from Beloit College Magazine Fall/Winter 2003.

Mounds and the Museum
How has the college treated the mounds, and how has the college—the Logan Museum of Anthropology in particular—interacted with the region’s indigenous people.
Fridays with Fred
History column by Beloit College Archivist Fred Burwell.

Louis Taylor Merrill

The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Dec., 1944), pp. 146-153

Beloit, Wisconsin : a study in urban geography. Lynn Harvey Halverson, 1933
From the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Includes a history of industry and commerce through 1933.

An Act to Incorporate the City of Beloit - 1856
Book of Beloit - Early Settlement
As It Was in the Beginning -- The East Which They Left -- The West Which Awaits Them -- Coos County Colonizers -- The New England Company Comes -- How the Land Was Divided -- Beloit Becomes a City
Book of Beloit II - Black Migration and Community History
In Search of Freedom -- Years 1910-20, Factory Growth -- White Population Resistance -- No Dorms for Black Students -- World War II -- Scout Troops -- NAACP -- George Hilliard -- Velma Bell Hamilton
Book of Beloit - Immigrant Groups
Selected Pages from Book of Beloit (1936) --Norwegians -- French -- Irish -- Greeks -- Italians -- Lithuanians

Rubie Bond Interview- The African-American Experience in Beloit, Wisconsin
In 1917, when she was ten years old, Rubie White moved to Beloit with her parents from Pontotoc, Mississippi. Her father had been recruited to work at Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
Beloit Local History - UW Digital Collections

Depression Years
From Book of Beloit II, 1986, published by the Beloit Daily News
War Years (World War II)
From Book of Beloit II, 1986, published by the Beloit Daily News
Peace and Prosperity (Post-War and 1950s)
From Book of Beloit II, 1986, published by the Beloit Daily News
Changing Times - 1960s
From Book of Beloit II, 1986, published by the Beloit Daily News
Moving Forward - 1970s
From Book of Beloit II, 1986, published by the Beloit Daily News
Peaks and Valleys - 1980-1985
From Book of Beloit II, 1986, published by the Beloit Daily News