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Beloit and Vicinity: Environmental History

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Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office
Data and maps
Wisconsin Historic Aerial Image Finder

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Surveys

See also Beloit and Vicinity - Maps
Soil Survey of Rock County 1920
Soil Survey of Rock County 1974
A print copy is in the Beloit College Library 631.47 W617sro 1974
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Wisconsin Land Survey
A Pre-European Settlement Vegetation Database for Wisconsin

Articles and Documents

Mossman, Michael J. Halvor Skavlem, the John Burroughs of Wisconsin, Passenger Pigeon, Winter 1990
Account of the breaking of the prairie in Rock County.

Chamberlin Springs Stages a Comeback
Article by John Morgan, from Beloit College Magazine, Spring 2014.

Chamberlin Springs Brochure circa 1876
Promotion of the healing properties of the spring water.

James J. Blaisdell, Wisconsin's Eclectic Environmentalist.
Article by Nelson Van Valen in The Wisconsin Magazine of History 74.4 (1991): 297-311. Beloit College professor Blaisdell viewed with alarm the consequences of an impending "tree famine."
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.
Electric Pumping at Beloit
Article by C. F. Dobson from Journal (American Water Works Association) 22.1 (1930): 94-98. Information on Beloit's water supply.
On Hallowed Ground by William Green
Effigy mounds at Beloit College.
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
Jonathan Carver crosses Wisconsin in the 1760's
The first detailed account of Wisconsin written in English.