JOHNSTOWN, P.V., on section 23 of town of same name, 13 miles east from Janesville, and fifty miles southeast from Madison. It has about 40 dwellings, 2 stores, 2 hotels, 1 Baptist and 1 Congregational church. It has a pleasant and healthy location on Rock Prairie, and in a vicinity of farms of good soil and well cultivated. Much attention has been paid to the raising of sheep, with satisfactory results.   [Source: Wisconsin Gazetteer by John Warren Hunt; ©1853 Beriah Brown, Printer, Madison; p. 115; Courtesy of Lori]

JOHNSTOWN, a small post-village of Rock co., Wisconsin, 53 miles S. W. from Milwaukee, contains 2 churches, a few stores, and 40 dwellings.   [Source: The New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States by Thomas Baldwin and J. Thomas, M.D., ©1854 Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, PA; p. 549; Courtesy of Kathy Lenerz]

Old Johnstown, in the town of Johnstown, twelve miles east of Janesville (so called in contradistinction to Johnstown Center), is a village of about 125 persons. It owes its existence in a great measure to the presence of Messrs. CARTER, FLETCHER, CAMMELL and HILL, who settled on the location of the village about 1839, and built the fist house. It contains a church and some small shops.   [Source: The Portrait & Biographical Album of Rock County, Wisconsin, ©1889 Acme, Chicago, IL; p. 1013; Courtesy of Carol]