BELOIT WI LODGING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND AREA ATTRACTIONS
Beloit WI Area Bed and Breakfast Hotel, Inn, Lodging Accommodations
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For an area Beloit WI hotel, getaway to the Cameo Rose - centrally located to visit Beloit, vibrant Madison, Wisconsin Dells, Spring Green and South Central WI. Stay a week and see all the splendor of Southern Wisconsin.
Beloit WI Attractions and 101 Things To Do
Beloit is rich in history and is situated among Native American effigy mounds that date back to AD 700. Historic buildings fill the City center. Visit the Beloit Historical Society, Hanchett Barlett Homestead, Lincoln Center, the Solem Museum, the Ted Perring Sports Hall of Fame and the Arthur Missner Veterans Gallery.
Hanchett Bartlett Homestead is a restored 1857 Victorian homestead, barn, and 1873 one-room schoolhouse filled with fine period furnishings.
The Stone Water Tower and Water Works Pump House was built in 1885 as Beloit’s first municipal water system.
Roy Chapman Andrews Society was the home to the original Indiana Jones - world adventurer and explorer Roy Chapman Andrews who explored the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and his finds of the first nests of dinosaur eggs, a new species of dinosaurs, and fossils of early mammals that co-existed with dinosaurs.
The Beloit College Campus was established in 1846 before Wisconsin became a State. The 40-acre campus is diverse in architectural styles.
The Logan Museum is located in the old Memorial Hall of Beloit College. Built in 1869, it houses a collection of around 3,000 Native American archaeological objects.
The 23 Native American Effigy Mounds at the college and along the Rock River and Turtle Creek are evidence of the early Beloit's Native Americans.
The Heritage Walkway at Riverside Park has hundreds of engraved brick that help trace Beloit’s history from the Blackhawk Wars to the twenty-first century.
The Rasey House is a cobblestone house that was built in 1850 and was first occupied by the first president of Beloit College. This is a Wisconsin Landmark and is one of the finest remaining examples of cobblestone architecture of Beloit and the State of Wisconsin.
See Markers Where Abraham Lincoln Spoke and Camped at Hanchett Hall in downtown Beloit, along the Rock River which commemorates when Lincoln camped as a member of the militia unit pursuing the Blackhak Indians, and a third marker is on Hwy. 51 between Beloit and Janesville.
Bushnell Wheeler House bluff-top Italian home is home to the South Beloit Historical Society.
Take a walking tour of the West Bluff Street Historic District along the Rock River’s west bank or the Near East Side Historic District Walking Tour.
Tiffany Bridge is the world’s only remaining five-arch stone railway bridge built in 1869 to span Turtle Creek. It provides picturesque vistas.
See our Madison WI Area 101 Things To Do Guide for Beloit area attractions.
Greater Beloit WI Chamber of Commerce www.greaterbeloitchamber.com, 608-365-8835.
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