Rock County, Wisconsin

Histories of the Churches

Be sure to visit the Church pages at WIGenWeb-Rock County for

websites links, clergy lists & photographs!

Beloit (city)

A. M. E. Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Atonement Lutheran Church* (current)

Bethlehem Ev. Lutheran Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Central Christian Church* (current)

Disciple (or "Christian") Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Ev. Luth. Church of the Atonement from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

First Baptist Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

First Church of Christ, Scientist from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

First Congregational Church

from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

from The Beloit Daily News (1998)

from The Beloit Daily News (1998)

from The Beloit Daily News (1998)

from The Beloit Daily News (1999)

First Methodist Episcopal Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

First Presbyterian Church

from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

from the church's website* (current)

First Regular Baptist Church* courtesy of The Primitive Baptist Library*

First United Methodist Church

from The Beloit Daily News (1998)

from the church's website* (current)

Gridley Chapel from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

German Presbyterian Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Liberty Christian Fellowship* (current)

Methodist Episcopal Church from The Milwaukee Journal (1873)

Our Lady of the Assumption Parish* (current)

Overflowing Cup Total Life Center* (current)

Second Congregational Church

from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

from the church's website* (current)

St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

St. Jude's Roman Catholic Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

St. Paul's Catholic Church* from The Angel Museum, Beloit* (current)

St. Paul's First Ev. Lutheran Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church

from "Portrait & Biographical Album of Rock Co., WI" (1889)

from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Parish

from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

from the church's website (current, about the Madison Diocese)

Trinity Lutheran Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

West Side Presbyterian Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Bergen

Jefferson Prairie Evangelical Lutheran Church (1924)

Clinton

First Presbyterian Church* (current)

Edgerton

Grace Baptist Church* (current)

St. Joseph Catholic Church* (current)

Evansville

Evansville Seminary & Junior College* courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery

First Baptist Church* courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery

Free Will Baptist Church* courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery

Methodist Church* courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery

St. John's Lutheran Church* courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery

St. Paul Catholic Church* courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery

Fulton Township

Albion Seventh Day Baptist Church* (current)

Otterbein United Brethren Church (current)

Sandy Sink Church (current)

Janesville (city)

history of Janesville's early churches from The Janesville Gazette (1985)

All Soul's Unitarian Church

from "The Unitarian" (1896)

from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Cargill Memorial Methodist Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Catholic churches from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Central Methodist Episcopal Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Christ Episcopal Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Congregationalists from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Court Street Meth. Epis. Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Episcopal Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

First Baptist Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

First Congregational Church from The Janesville Gazette (1985)

First Independent Society of Liberal Christians from "Rock Co., Wis.,

Vol. I" (1908)

First Methodist Episcopal Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

First Presbyterian Church

from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

from The Janesville Gazette (1985)

from The Janesville Gazette (2001)

Nativity of Mary Parish* (current)

New Life Assembly of God* (current)

St. Patrick's Catholic Church

from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

from The Janesville Gazette (1985)

Trinity Episcopal Church

from "The Spirit of Missions" (1844)

from The church's website (current)

Magnolia Township

Advent Christian Church (1934)

Milton

First Old School Baptist Church* Courtesy of The Primitive Baptist Library*

Methodist Episcoptal Church from "Portrait & Biographical Album of

Rock Co., WI" (1889)

Seventh Day Baptist Church from "History of Rock Co., WI" (1879)

& "Portrait & Biographical Album of Rock Co., WI" (1889)

& "Rock County, Wis." (1908)

Milton Junction

Methodist Episcoptal Church from "Portrait & Biographical Album of

Rock Co., WI" (1889)

Seventh Day Baptist Church from "History of Rock Co., WI" (1879)

& "Portrait & Biographical Album of Rock Co., WI" (1889)

& "Rock County, Wis." (1908)

Milton Township

Seventh Day Baptist Rock River Church (1858-1917) sign (taken in 2002)

Newark Township

Luther Valley Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Orfordville

Orfordville Methodism from The Brodhead Independent (1907)

Spring Valley Township

West Luther Valley Church from "Rock Co., Wis., Vol. I" (1908)

Utters Corners

Methodist Episcopal Church organized in 1852; extinct

Wisconsin

Primitive Baptist Churches in WI from Carthage Library (current)

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