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Beloit is a city in Rock County in southern Wisconsin, set on the Rock River at its confluence with Turtle Creek, directly on the Illinois state line.

Beloit was founded in 1836, when New Englander Caleb Blodgett became its first permanent settler and the New England Emigrating Company of Colebrook, New Hampshire, sent settlers west to build a town on the New England model, with wide streets platted in 1838.

The settlement was first named New Albany in 1837 after Albany, Vermont, and was renamed Beloit in 1838 — a name coined to sound reminiscent of Detroit.

Beloit was incorporated as a village on February 24, 1846, and as a city on March 31, 1856.

Beloit College, a private liberal arts college chartered in the 1840s with its cornerstone laid in 1846, anchors the city's east riverbank, and its Logan Museum of Anthropology is one of the city's cultural landmarks.

Famed explorer and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, an inspiration for Indiana Jones, was a Beloit College alumnus.

Beloit became a manufacturing powerhouse in the late 1800s: the Williams Engine Works arrived in 1889 and, after combining with the Eclipse Wind Engine Company, grew into Fairbanks, Morse and Company, the city's signature engine builder.

Beloit lays claim to several inventions, including Arthur P. Warner's speedometer, John Francis Appleby's twine binder, and Korn Kurls, the original puffed-cheese snack that preceded Cheetos.

ABC Supply, today one of the largest roofing and building-products distributors in the United States, was founded in Beloit in 1982 by Ken and Diane Hendricks.

Since August 3, 2021, the Beloit Sky Carp — the High-A Midwest League affiliate of the Miami Marlins, renamed from the longtime Beloit Snappers — have played at ABC Supply Stadium, a roughly 3,850-seat ballpark on the Rock River in downtown Beloit, just a few hundred feet from the Illinois line.