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Franklyn Hazelo House
Built in 1858 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The Franklyn Hazelo House is a Greek Revival-styled house clad in cobblestones that was built in 1858 in Rochester, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”
Wikipedia article Franklyn Hazelo House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Racine County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1858, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.74000121- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Rochester village. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
The Hanging of John McCaffrey. - Capital punishment, as is known, is prohibited by statute in Wisconsin. In two cases only, has it been enforced, and one of these occurred in Kenosha County, when John McCaffrey suffered the extreme penalty of the law, for the murder of his wife. The crime was committed on the night of Monday, July 22, 1850.
I think the most marked Indian trail to be now found in the county, crosses the Rochester & Burlington road, southwest of Rochester village, and winds along the crest of the bank of Fox River for a considerable distance, among forest trees that stood where they now stand, before Levi Godfrey's adventurous spirit had guided him to his early home in Wisconsin.
The tS'chooh. - The first school-building was raised in 1840, but the first school opened was that taught in 1837 by Miss Dyer, a sister of Dr. Dyer, of Burlington. In 1848, in School District No. 2, a wooden building was erected, the first teacher employed, of which there is any record, being Miss Sarah Whitman, the present wife of Mr. Henry Cady, the genial Postmaster of Rochester.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Franklyn Hazelo House
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Debris and open burning
7
Natural
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Franklyn Hazelo House: 7 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Burlington, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 33 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 7 lightning, 4 flood.
The reports record 9 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Five people were injured (suffered tingling sensations) by a nearby lightning strike during the ChocolateFest in Burlington. They were taken to a local hospital for medical treatment and released.
Severe thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts estimated at 80 mph. Many power lines and trees were taken down by the strong winds, and several homes and cars were damaged.
Persistent thunderstorms producing torrential rain caused flooding from 2 miles east of Burlington to 2 miles west of Union Grove. The water closed several roads and caused some basement flooding. Radar estimated 4 to 5 inches of rainfall in this area and 3.71 inches of rain was reported in Burlington.
Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled many large trees in the city of Burlington. One tree had a vary large branch snap off and fall onto a car, curshing it in the process. Tree debris brought down several power-lines.
The Fox River at Burlington experienced moderate flooding as it crested at 12.91 feet, or 1.91 feet above the flood stage of 11 feet at 330 AM on April 19th.
The Fox River reached minor flood stage, cresting at 11.33 feet early morning on October 7th. Floodwaters are into Riverside Park in Burlington. Floodwaters cover a portion of Brever Road about 4 miles south of Burlington.
Strong winds knocked large branches out of trees and uprooted a couple dozen large trees. A few power-lines were snapped by the broken branches. Two roads were blocked by the tree debris.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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