Janesville, Wisconsin
Janesville, Wisconsin Location in Rock County and the state of Wisconsin.
Location in Rock County and the state of Wisconsin.
Janesville, Wisconsin is positioned in the US Janesville, Wisconsin - Janesville, Wisconsin Janesville is a town/city in southern Wisconsin, United States. It is the governmental center of county and biggest city of Rock County, and the principal municipality of the Janesville, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.
After some discussion, it was settled that the town would be titled after Janes himself and thus, in 1835, Janesville was founded. Even with being titled after a Virginian, Janesville was established by immigrants from New England.
New Englanders, and New England transplants from upstate New York, were the vast majority of Janesville's inhabitants amid the first a several decades of its history. Land surveys encouraged pioneers to settle in the region among the abundance of fertile farmland and woodlands.
Some of those in that revival boss were also active in the abolitionist and women's rights movements. One of the pioneer in Janesville was William Tallman, who hailed from Rome, New York.
As the populace interval in the Janesville area, a several new industries began cropping up along the Rock River, including flour and lumber mills.
Janesville was very active amid the Civil War.
Local farms sold grains to the Union army, and Rock County was one of the counties in Wisconsin with the highest number of men enlisted. Thomas H.
Ruger, of Janesville, served in the war, along with his brothers, Edward, William, and Henry, and he rose to the project of brigadier general.
After the Civil War, Janesville's agriculture continued to surge and a greater demand for new farming technology led to the evolution of a several foundries and farm machine manufacturers in the area, including the Janesville Machine Company, and the Rock River Iron Works.
With the boom in the farm service sector, and establishment of a rail system, Janesville soon began to ship goods to and from prominent easterly cities, including New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
One of the key developments in Janesville's history was the establishment of a General Motors plant in 1919.
Durant was encouraged by Joseph Craig, the president of Janesville Machine, to build a plant to produce the Samson tractors in Janesville, to which Durant agreed.
One of the most prominent turn of the century figures in Janesville was George Parker, who advanced new pen technologies and styles, and eventually established the Parker Pen Company.
Parker designed and established a command posts and factory in downtown Janesville.
Another meaningful figure in Janesville's history was John Nolen, who was hired by the town/city in 1919.
His park planning established Janesville as the "City of Parks." Janesville was the site of the first Wisconsin State Fair in 1851, visited by roughly 10,000 citizens . Twenty percent of Wisconsin's buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places are positioned in Janesville. The 1857 Lincoln-Tallman House, which models the Italian Villa-style architecture, is one of 34 sites on the Register. Abraham Lincoln slept there for two evenings. The Columbus Circle neighborhood became Janesville's tenth historic precinct in 2005.
The old Janesville Public Library, positioned at 64 S.
It is described, in the NRHP Nominating Form, as "among the best Neoclassical Carnegie libraries in the state." The Courthouse Hill Historic District was added in 1986. In 1976, the Lappin-Hayes Block, once the site of the cabin belonging to Henry Janes, was added. The Lovejoy and Merrill-Nowlan Houses, the residences of two Janesville Mayors, including Allen P.
Janesville advanced its first flag in 2015 in a design contest held in Janesville's schools.
The flag represents the community's past, present, and future, with 1853 representing the year Janesville was incorporated, four stars symbolizing the city's four initial wards, a green background standing for the community's agricultural industry, and black representing both the rich soil for which Janesville is known, and the smoke that billowed from smokestacks as the improve advanced a manufacturing economy.
The tree in the center is the city's logo, representing Janesville's slogan, "Wisconsin's Park Place." According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 34.45 square miles (89.23 km2), of which 33.86 square miles (87.70 km2) is territory and 0.59 square miles (1.53 km2) is water. The town/city is split by the Rock River.
Janesville has had a town/city manager-council form of government since 1923. The town/city council comprises of seven members, voted for at large for two-year terms.
Janesville is represented by Stephen Nass (R) and Janis Ringhand (D) in the Wisconsin State Senate, and Amy Loudenbeck (R) and Debra Kolste (D) in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Paul Ryan (R) represents the town/city in the United States House of Representatives, and Ron Johnson (R) and Tammy Baldwin (D) in the United States Senate.
Businesses headquartered in Janesville include Blain's Farm and Fleet, a three-state retail chain; Woodman's Food Market, a county-wide supermarket chain that assembled its first store in Janesville; Swing'n'Slide, a manufacturer of wood-and-plastic playground equipment; Hufcor (formerly Hough Shade Company), a manufacturer of room dividers that markets internationally; and Gray's Brewing, manufacturer of boutique beers and soft drinks.
From 1919 until 2008, Janesville was the site of the Janesville GM Assembly Plant.
Begun in 1919, when GM bought the Janesville Machine Company and consolidated it with the Samson Tractor Company, the Janesville plant was the earliest General Motors plant in North America before to its closing.
The Parker Pen Company was established in Janesville.
The business later purchased Manpower, Inc., but eventually sold the pen company to Gillette and no longer operates in Janesville.
City of Janesville Janesville operates a bus system, the Janesville Transit System (JTS), which also joins with neighboring Beloit and Milton.
Interstate 90/39 passes through Janesville, as does U.S.
Janesville is served by Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport (KJVL), which provides general aviation and air cargo services.
The town/city is served by three freight barns s: Union Pacific, which has two everyday freight trains between Janesville and Chicago; the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, a county-wide carrier that provides freight service to metros/cities throughout southern Wisconsin; and the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, that operates a weekly train to Chicago. The Janesville Gazette, owned by Bliss Communications, is one of two everyday newspapers in Rock County, Wisconsin (the Beloit Daily News is the other), and serves a county-wide market stretching into Walworth County.
Janesville has two tv stations licensed to the city: CW partner WIFS (Channel 57), which has its offices and transmitter in Madison and serves all of south-central Wisconsin, and WDNW-LD (Channel 45), a low-power translator station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
The Janesville School District has twelve elementary schools, three middle schools, two high schools and five charter schools: the Janesville Academy for International Studies, ARISE Virtual Academy, Rock River Charter School, Rock University High School, and TAGOS Leadership Academy.
The Wisconsin School for the Blind and Visually Impaired has been positioned in Janesville since 1850.
A two-year improve college, the University of Wisconsin Rock County, positioned on the southwest side of Janesville, is part of the University of Wisconsin System.
Janesville's enhance library was then retitled Hedberg Public Library with respect to its biggest contributors. Janesville is known as "Wisconsin's Park Place".
Other primary parks include Riverside Park, a recreational park along the Rock River including a golf course and a segment of the Ice Age Trail; Rockport Park, largely undeveloped, including the municipal swimming pool and Peace Park; Monterey Park, including the Big Rock, an early natural landmark signaling a good ford of the Rock River (and the namesake of the county, but not the river), as well as a sports stadium used by the school system; Lustig Park, used for a disc golf course; and Palmer Park, which contains a 9-hole golf course and CAMDEN Playground (an accessible play area, considered the biggest accessible/integrated playground in the world and the most accessible/integrated playground).
Most of the hiking and biking trails in the town/city are connected to the Ice Age Trail, which will eventually connect to the west with the Sugar River State Trail, north to Milton and Fort Atkinson and east to the Kettle Moraine State Forest. Janesville also has a almost 500-acre greenbelt fitness to furnish areas for surface water runoff and surrounding for a range of plants and animals.
The remaining two Janesville churches include St.
The Gideon Bible organization was established at the Janesville YMCA in 1899 by Janesville resident John H.
In fall 2009, Janesville became home to the Janesville Jets, an expansion team in the North American Hockey League, with games played at the Janesville Ice Arena.
The Janesville Cubs, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the Chicago Cubs, was based in Janesville from 1941 to 1942 and 1946 to 1953.
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"World's Tallest Peace Pole - Rockport Park Peace Park, Janesville, WI".
Lovejoy and Merrill-Nowlan Houses - Janesville, WI City of Janesville.
City of Janesville, Council-Manager Form of Government.
Janesville Convention and Visitors Bureau | Tour Opportunities GM to close Janesville plant on December 23 2008, The Capital Times, October 13, 2008.
Jim Leute, "GM employees get official word," Janesville Gazette, October 13, 2008.
Thursday is last day of manufacturing as Isuzu line comes to end," The Janesville Gazette, April 21, 2009.
City of Janesville.
School District of Janesville Home Page - Janesville, Wisconsin Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired Janesville Parks Division Janesville Bicycle Trails a b c "Wisconsin Medal of Honor Recipients".
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City of Janesville Municipalities and communities of Rock County, Wisconsin, United States State of Wisconsin
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