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The Janesville Sack Co. #1 was another occupant. [ 3 ] The Lappin-Hayes Block block at 2 S. Main St is a 4-story business block built in 1855 in Italianate style, with stores at ground level, a saloon in the basement, and above offices and an 800-seat auditorium called Lappin Hall.
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.
Janesville was the site of the first Wisconsin State Fair in 1851, attended by approximately 10,000 people. [19] A tree that once stood in downtown Courthouse Park was the site of a lynch mob that, on their second attempt, having been rebuffed by an opposing crowd the day before, hanged a convicted murderer in 1859. [20]
The Jefferson Avenue Historic District in Janesville, Wisconsin is a historic neighborhood east of the downtown of mostly middle-class homes built from 1891 to the 1930s. [2] It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [3]
This is a list of city managers and mayors of Janesville, Wisconsin, USA. Janesville was originally incorporated as a city in 1853, utilizing the mayor-council form of government . In 1923, Janesville adopted the council-manager form of government , and has retained that form of government ever since.
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Apr. 14—JANESVILLE — Janesville's east side is fast becoming Kwik Trip-dominant. To be sure, the city's south, north and west sides are home to a half-dozen Kwik Trip-owned properties, too.
Allen Perry Lovejoy was born in Maine in 1825 and trained as a carpenter. He came west to settle in Janesville in 1850 and started a retail lumberyard. By 1868 he had several yards and a wholesale lumber business, supplied by pine stands that he bought in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and as far west as Oregon and California.