BlockCaledonia Town
The complete chapter on this town from History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890. 293 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Readfield | 85 | 3 | 7 | - |
| Readfield | 80 | 6 | 6 | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 2 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
293 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890. 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.
Caledonia Town
Township 21, Range 14, was taken from Mukwa, and made a seperate town, to be called Caledonia; the first town meeting to be held at the house of James McHugh.
^^ Resolved, That the vote taken for the permanent location of the County seat, at the general election last past, was illegal, as no point had been designated by the Legislature to be voted for, and no notice given to the different towns in said
''Resolved, That Mukwa is the County seat, and that all County officers for Waupaca County are hereby notified and required to hold their offices at said place."
It was further '* Resolved, That all action taken by the Board of Supervisors at their meeting at Waupaca, on the 15th day of April, 1853, concerning the removal of the County seat from Mukwa to Waupaca, was hasty and without due consideration, and that all acts, and resolves passed at that meeting, relative to the removal of said County seat to Waupaca are hereby rescinded."
''Resolved, That James Smiley was duly elected and qualified to the office of Clerk of the Court, at the election ordered by the Act of the Legislature, entitled ' An Act to Organize the County of Waupaca for Judicial Purposes,' in April, 1853."
Large Salaries Court To Be Held At Mukwa
'^ Resolved, That the building known as Miller's Store Building, in the Village of Mukwa, is hereby provided for the use of the Circuit and County Courts of this County, and it is hereby directed that the courts of the County hold their sessions in said building until other buildings are provided."
'^Resolved, That the Clerk of the Board is hereby directed to notify Judge Larrabee officially of the action of this Board in this matter, and inform him of the provision."
Provenance
Text from History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890, 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.