The agent for the New England Emigrating Company must be credited with having a silver tongue, for nearly the entire town of Colebrook, New Hampshire moved here in 1837. Determined to sustain "science and religion and all the adjuncts that contribute to the elevation of society," the cultured arrivals promptly established a church and chartered Beloit College in 1846. The Beloit College campus is also the site of more than two dozen prehistoric Indian mounds.