[2] It is an early 1.5-story cottage built of carefully fit dolomite for Rev.

[3][4] Samuel Mitchell was an American Revolutionary War veteran who had retired to the area after serving as Methodist Episcopal clergy in Virginia and Illinois.

John T. Mitchell, was appointed as the first pastor of the Platteville Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832.

One of the founders of Platteville, he was a veteran of the Black Hawk War and served in the Wisconsin State Senate and the Wisconsin State Assembly.

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