Heart Prairie Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church

Town 3 north, range 15 east, was at first included in largest Elkhorn. At an extra session of the territorial Legislature by an act dated August 18, 1840, this town was made a part of Whitewater. Five months later, January 12, 1841, it was set off as the town of Richmond. Among the first-comers to the town were Thomas and T. Perry James and Robert Sherman, from Richmond, Washington county, Rhode Island, and their influence, just then, was sufficient to place another Richmond in the field of American geography.

Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin .., published 1912.

Glacial action left the town of uneven surface, but not more so than other towns. The high ground of eastern Whitewater is continued through northeastern Richmond and thence irregularly southeastward to the state line in Bloomfield ; but it nowhere becomes hills. A large part of Rock Prairie, its elevation eight hundred and ninety-four feet above sea-level, lies in the southwestern part of the town. Turtle lake, its greatest length about one mile and average width about one-third of a mile, lies at the meeting of sections 11, 12, 13, 14. There are small glacial lakes, or large pot-holes, one each in sections 4, 9, 10. Turtle creek, the only noticeable stream in the town, flows from its lake southwardly with double curvature to Delavan. where it turns west ward and with another sigmoid flexure crosses Darien and thence to the Rock. In its course through Richmond it crosses sections 14, 23, 26, 35. 36. It is bordered by a large marsh, now about to be reclaimed.

Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin .., published 1912.

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