Beloit, Wisconsin

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Location in Rock County and the state of Wisconsin.

State Wisconsin Beloit is a town/city in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States.

1.2 Downtown Beloit and the riverfront Beloit was originally titled New Albany (after Albany, Vermont) in 1837 by its founder, Caleb Blodgett.

The name was changed to Beloit in 1838. The name Beloit was coined to be reminiscent of Detroit. Pearsons Hall of Science was designed by the architectural firm Burnham and Root for Beloit College to use as a science center.

Downtown Beloit and the riverfront Downtown Beloit is the historical economic, cultural and civil center of the community.

Beloit's riverfront park system, mainly Riverside Park, extends north of the downtown along the east bank toward the Town of Beloit.

Downtown Beloit is one of two inaugural members of the Wisconsin Main Street designation. The Union Pacific Railroad, which took over the C&NW, operates in Beloit today over a remnant of the former Milwaukee Road, providing a rail connection to Fairbanks-Morse Engine.[clarification needed] The Canadian Pacific Railway operates other trackage in Beloit. The town/city also had an electric interurban barns .[when?] According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.70 square miles (45.84 km2), of which 17.37 square miles (44.99 km2) is territory and 0.33 square miles (0.85 km2) is water. Location: 42 30 30 N 89 01 54 W.

The town/city is positioned contiguous to the Town of Beloit, Town of Turtle, and the Illinois municipality of South Beloit.

Most of Beloit's evolution is occurring on the east side, contiguous to Interstates 39/90 and Interstate 43, where the town/city annexed non-urban land for the extensive Beloit Gateway Industrial Park, as well as in the newly revitalized downtown positioned along the Rock River.

Beloit is represented by Janis Ringhand and Stephen Nass in the Wisconsin State Senate, Amy Loudenbeck and Mark Spreitzer in the Wisconsin State Assembly, Mark Pocan in the United States House of Representatives, and Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin in the United States Senate.

City council elections are held annually in April. The town/city council establishes policies for the town/city and appoints a town/city manager to implement those policies.

Downtown Beloit is a dense cluster of mostly small shops and boutiques.

The region has been recognized for increased investment and renewal since the 1990s. Upscale downtown condominiums and hotels were introduced post-2000 with the assembly of the Hotel Hilton Apartments (2001), the Beloit Inn (now the Ironworks Hotel) (2003), Heritage View (2005), and the Phoenix Project (2013).

From the 1990s to 2011, downtown Beloit has received direct enhance and private investment totaling more than $75 million. In 2011, Beloit was a Great American Main Street Award winner. In 2012, Beloit was listed #17 on Travel and Leisure's list of America's Greatest Mainstreets. The School District of Beloit serves more than 7,400 pupils in six major schools, four intermediate schools, and one high school, with alternative programming and charter schools.

Beloit Memorial High School is the city's enhance high school.

The Roy Chapman Andrews Academy, a project-based charter school, is part of the School District of Beloit and serves grades 6 through 12.

Beloit College, a private liberal arts college with undergraduate enrollment around 1,300, is positioned in the city.

Blackhawk Technical College, a enhance technical school, has a ground in downtown Beloit.

Beloit is also home to Concordia University's Beloit location, Beloit Center.

Beloit is home to a experienced minor league baseball team, the Beloit Snappers.

Beloit is the only town/city in Rock County to have been titled an All-America City. Beloit was one of Travel + Leisure's top 20 Greatest American Main Streets for 2014.

In 2017, Beloit's chief street was titled one of five "Most Romantic" Main Streets for 2017 by National Main Street Center. Belting, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Richard Burdge, Wisconsin State Senator Jim Caldwell, Beloit Memorial High School Alumnus and head coach of the Detroit Lions Cunningham, Wisconsin State Senator Davis, Wisconsin State Senator Delmar De - Long, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Engebretson, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Fifield, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Hansen, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Hansen, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Hurlbut, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Wallace Leschinsky, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Mathison, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Edward Strong Merrill, Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, legendary multi-sport athlete, Beloit College, '02 Sereno Merrill, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Tommy Mills, head coach of the Creighton Bluejays, Georgetown Hoyas and Arkansas State Indians football teams; Creighton Bluejays and Arkansas State Indians men's basketball squads and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball team David Noggle, Wisconsin State Assemblyman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Idaho Territory Plummer, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Robertson, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Robinson, Wisconsin State Senator Richard Shoemaker, Wisconsin State Senator Smith, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Simon Smith, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Todd, Wisconsin State Senator Wheeler, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and attorney Winegar, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Beloit Ironworks, a group of restored industrialized buildings along the city's downtown riverfront Middle College, on the Beloit College campus, Wisconsin's earliest academic building still in use Beloit Historical Society Archived July 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

"REMEMBER - This Is Beloit |".

"Wisconsin Main Street map and beginning years" (PDF).

Beloit Railroad History and Photos "City Council - Welcome to the City of Beloit".

"City Manager - Welcome to the City of Beloit".

"Downtown Beloit an Emerging Destination".

Wisconsin State Journal.

"Beloit - Concordia University Wisconsin".

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