BlockAztalan Town
The complete chapter on this town from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879. 137 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this town: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aztalan | 10 | 7 | 3 | - |
| Jefferson Junction | 14 | - | 1 | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
137 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Aztalan Town
The first settlers in the town of Aztalan were Harvey and Volney Foster, near the present line between .Jefi'erson and Aztalan, Frederick Landt, Henry Pellet, .Jeremiah Brayton, George Hebard, .James L. Manville, Benjamin Babcock, Edward Abbe, Samuel Hosley, J. D. Waterbury, D. C. Pellet, Stephen Hanks, R. M. Nevins, E. L. Braman, H. Z. Britten and Harvey B. Smith.
The first town election was held in the spring of 1842. at Aztalan, the township then comprising what are now the towns of Lake Mills and Waterloo, and the west half of Milford. M. R. Clapp, of Milford, was the first Chairman of the Town Supervisors.
The Rock and Crawfish Rivers and the Chicago & North-Western Railway pass longitudinally through the town. As an agricultural and stock-raising region, the town of Aztalan has no superior in the State.
Provenance
Text from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.